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

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William Blake (1757-1827) engraved after John Flaxman (1755-1826), stipple engraving and etching on paper, Saturn and His Children - Did Saturn Huge Devour,
from Compositions from the Works, Days and Theogony of Hesiod, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown 1817, 9cm x 16cm, 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.”