![]() ![]() ![]() At twenty, he attended to his youngest brother Robert as he died. In his adolescence, he trained as an apprentice print-maker, learning methods of engraving and etching that were conventional at the time. ![]() Blakereported at the age of eight that he had seen a tree filled with angels about a year later he announced he had seen the Prophet Ezekiel in the fields as he returned from a walk to his home on the outskirts of London. To say that the poet, draughtsman, painter, and print-maker William Blake (November 1757- August 1827) is a “visionary” writer is not merely to use a metaphor. ![]()
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