To coincide with the major William Blake exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum Sanders of Oxford present an outstanding collection of engravings by William Blake.
The prints in this exhibition were predominantly produced towards the end of Blake’s career and are regarded as his masterpieces of intaglio engraving. Exquisite prints from Blake’s The Book of Job, Dante’s Divine Comedy and rare impressions from Thorntons The Pastorals of Virgil will be on display and available to purchase. Alongside these are a small collection of Blake’s earlier commercial prints including his largest and finest reproductive engraving of William Hogarth’s Beggar’s Opera, Act III and two striking plates from Erasmus Darwin’s Botanic Garden; Tornado and Fertilisation of Egypt.
