Two Legs

september 1800 – september 1803 · Virkested

Felpham

August 1803

A fight with the soldier Schofield and a trial at Chichester

In August 1803 Blake was involved in a physical altercation with a soldier, John Schofield, and was charged not only with assault but with uttering seditious and treasonable expressions against the King; Schofield claimed that Blake had exclaimed “Damn the king. The soldiers are all slaves.” Blake was cleared at the Chichester assizes.

september 1803 – oktober 1803 · Bopæl

Broadwick Street

oktober 1803 – 1820 · Bopæl

South Molton Street

1804

Returns to London and begins “Jerusalem”

In 1804 Blake returned to London and began to write and illustrate “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion” (1804–20), his most ambitious work.

1809

An exhibition in his brother's shop: nothing sold

Blake set up an independent exhibition in his brother's haberdashery shop at 27 Broad Street in Soho to market his version of “The Canterbury Pilgrims” along with other works. It was very poorly attended, sold none of the temperas or watercolours, and its only review, in The Examiner, was hostile.