William Blake (1757-1827) engraver after John Flaxman (1755-...

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William Blake (1757-1827) engraver after John Flaxman (1755-1826), stipple engraving and etching on paper, Then Love Most Beauteous Of Immortals Rose, from
Compositions from the Works, Days and Theogony of Hesiod, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown 1817, 18.5cm x 15cm, mounted, glazed
and framed. Flaxman, a close friend of Blake, was the much more successful artist at the time and used his name to help the struggling Blake with engraving commissions.
According to The William Blake Archive, the Hesiod etchings “are one of Blake’s major endeavours as a commercial etcher/engraver of designs by other artists …
Without the Hesiod project, Blake and his wife Catherine might have descended into dire poverty.”