Our Sales Review Editor
17 March 2024
The spring issue of the Blake Quarterly will mark the debut of Mark Crosby as sales review editor; Mark succeeds Bob Essick in that role.
Continue readingRemembering Morris
13 March 2024
Recollections and appreciations of Morris Eaves from colleagues, friends, and the Blake community.
Continue reading“Then patient wait a little while”: Blake Comes to the Getty
15 September 2023
The Blake Archive recently published “The Phoenix to Mrs. Butts,” and it occurs to me that this post deserves the title “The Phoenix to Mr. Getty,” since it concerns an exhibition that has been longer in the making than anyone could have anticipated. Next month, the Getty Center in Los Angeles will unveil William Blake: Visionary, postponed from 2020, when it was scheduled after the show at Tate Britain.
Continue readingA Conversation with Helen Bruder
24 August 2023
This interview was conducted by Elizabeth Effinger, who has edited and condensed it for publication. It will also appear in the fall 2023 (vol. 57, no. 2) issue of the Blake Quarterly.
Continue readingAntipodean Blake
5 April 2023
The cover of our spring 2023 issue (vol. 56, no. 4) features a map of Australia, with the states and largest territory represented by details of works by Blake. The puzzle is to discover the link between the image and the state/territory in each case.
Continue readingPosture Parallels in Visions of the Daughters of Albion
3 March 2023
During my archive work this past fall, I was asked to markup Copies D and L of Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793). At the time, I had also recently reread Visions for other research, and it lead contemplating about what Blake attempted to convey through only illustration.
Continue readingThe Mystery and Magic of Photo Processing
20 May 2022
I’m lucky enough to have some hidden skills in Adobe Photoshop, and they’ve become quite useful every now and again on the Blake Archive. Photos of manuscripts, though high resolution, still present visual challenges when it comes to identifying near-invisible features like erasures, corrections, and other odd quirks. And while we’re trained to be extremely observant and thorough when analyzing a manuscript, the magic of image-processing software can give us an advantage.
Continue readingBlake Quarterly (spring 2022)
29 April 2022
Our spring issue (vol. 55, no. 4) came out this week.
Continue readingBlake Quarterly (winter 2021-22)
1 February 2022
The winter issue of the journal (vol. 55, no. 3) is now online.
Continue readingReflections
18 November 2021
My name is Esther and I’m an undergraduate student working for the William Blake Archive. I joined in January of this year. At first, I was working on the transcription for bb35.1.1 and bb35.1.2 of The Everlasting Gospel. After it was decided that the transcription didn’t have a place on the website right now, I transferred over to helping maintain the site’s collection lists.
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