William BlakeBritish, 1757–1827Christ Blessing
May one see it?
Yes, receiving visitors
Harvard Art Museums
Room2220, floor 2, European and American Art, 17th–19th centuryCambridge, United States
On public display.
- Checked
- 3 days ago
- In this state since
- Sep 27, 2026
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1943.180
In the catalog
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- Harvard Art Museums: the museum's own open data · fetched 3 days ago
- Image: Harvard Art Museums — © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Meanwhile, in the life of William Blake
The whole life1780–1808
Exhibits six times at the Royal Academy
Despite his antagonism towards Reynolds, Blake submitted works to the Royal Academy on six occasions between 1780 and 1808.
October 1803 – 1820 · Residence
South Molton Street
c. 1808
Polemical annotations to Reynolds's “Discourses”
Around 1808 Blake gave vigorous expression to his views on art in an extensive series of polemical annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds's “Discourses”, denouncing the Royal Academy as a fraud and proclaiming that to generalise is to be an idiot.
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.
1809
The “Descriptive Catalogue”: an analysis of Chaucer
For the exhibition Blake wrote his “Descriptive Catalogue” (1809), which contains what Anthony Blunt called a “brilliant analysis” of Chaucer and is regularly anthologised as a classic of Chaucer criticism; it also contains detailed explanations of his other paintings.
