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- Title
Blake's Heavy Metal: The History, Weight, Uses, Cost, and Makers of His Copper Plates.
- Authors
Bentley, G. E.
- Abstract
This article describes the materials the poet William Blake used in creating his copper plates for "Songs of Innocence and of Experience," "America," "Europe," "For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise," and "Jerusalem." The article discusses who made the copper plates, how they were used, the printing process and the cost to Blake, as well as why they are now largely lost.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ESSAYS; BLAKE, William, 1757-1827; COPPERPLATES; 18TH century engraving; BRITISH engraving; SONGS of Innocence &; of Experience (Book); FOR the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (Book); AMERICA (Book); EUROPE (Book); JERUSALEM: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (Book); PRINTING; POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2007, Vol 76, Issue 2, p714
- ISSN
0042-0247
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.3138/utq.76.2.714