Wikipedia:WikiProject Poetry/William Blake
Welcome to the William Blake Task Force.This Task Force organizes and coordinates Wikipedia's coverage of Romantic poet and artist William Blake. In Fall 2013, User:Sadads will be having a WP:GLAM-Wiki internship with The William Blake Archive, and has started the project to organize and support efforts to improve content related to William Blake, the collection of The William Blake Archive and other topics related to Blake's contributions to both literary and visual culture. More information about the collaboration, which will include content development and events related to the William Blake Archive, will be coming soon! Make sure that you add this page to your watchlist!
If you are interested in Blake or improving Wikipedia's examination of Blake scholarship, we would love to have your support. Please add yourself to the list of members. Also, check out the most recent update to find out what is going on in the project
GLAM-Wiki cooperation agenda
editThe following is a list of things User:Sadads plans to encourage during the end of Summer 2013 and Fall 2013 while he is an intern supporting cooperation with the William Blake Archive:
- Assess articles related to Blake on Wikipedia
- Sponsor multiples edithons, including at least one at Kansas State University and one at University of North Carolina, two universities where Archive editors are located, Oct.11 Edithaton at Kansas State will have more information soon
- Run a Wikipedia Education Program assignment with cooperation from a professor at Kansas State University focused on the poetry of Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Run at least one edit drive to improve content related to Blake -
- Reorganization and clear labeling Blake Archive files on commons, ensuring that they credit both originating institution and the Blake Archive
- Document the process and activities involved with Blake Activities - this will be done mostly at User:Sadads's blog http://alexstinson.wordpress.com/
User:Sadads would strongly encourage discussion of further possible activities or feedback on the talk page for the task force
Members
edit- Sadads (talk · contribs)
- Paul Barlow (talk · contribs)
- Ceoil (talk · contribs)
- Modernist (talk · contribs)
- Spanglej (talk · contribs)
- WickerGuy (talk · contribs)
- Petropoxy (Lithoderm Proxy) (talk · contribs)
- Bertaut (talk · contribs)
- Johnbod (talk · contribs)
- Dmitrismirnov (talk · contribs)
- Charles Matthews (talk · contribs)
- Sɛvɪnti faɪv (talk · contribs)
Scope and categories
editGenerally, content worked on by the project will fall within the scope of Category:William Blake. Below is a category tree to help with navigating and curating content.
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Article assessment
editTo assess articles as part of the William Blake project, add the following template {{WikiProject Poetry|class = | importance =| william-blake= yes| blake-importance =}} We assess articles within the project on the assessment scale provided at WP: WikiProject Poetry. Importance should indicate an articles relative relationship to Blake scholarship or public interest in Blake.
William Blake task force articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
GA | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |||
B | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 20 | ||
C | 2 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 45 | ||
Start | 8 | 24 | 16 | 20 | 2 | 70 | |
Stub | 6 | 13 | 15 | 2 | 36 | ||
List | 1 | 1 | |||||
NA | 2 | 13 | 15 | ||||
Assessed | 19 | 53 | 52 | 53 | 13 | 4 | 194 |
Total | 19 | 53 | 52 | 53 | 13 | 4 | 194 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 816 | Ω = 4.58 |
Criteria for importance can be broken down in the following ways:
- Top Importance- Blake's Biography, complete works by Blake (whether epic poems or full publications), work treated extensively in scholarship or taught extensively in schools
- High Importance - Important poems or illustrations, important Blake scholars, people or places important in understanding Blake's life
- Mid Importance - Less important poems or illustrations, characters from Blake's mythology that receive considerable attention
- Low importance - derivative works of little importance, minor characters in Blake's mythology, individuals on the periphery of Blake's life
Content developed
editThe below section is to both document content that has been significantly improved and to help communicate the successes of the GLAM-Wiki Collaboration with The William Blake Archive
- Recognized Content
This section will contain a list of content brought to GA, FA, FL or Featured picture by the project.
- DYKs
This section will contain a list of articles brought to DYK by the project.
New Articles
editThis section will contain a list of new articles created by the project.
- Samuel Collings
- William Blake Archive
- Anthony Stephen Mathew
- Visionary Heads -7435 views ->
- The Grave (poem) - 2436 views
- Notebook of William Blake
- The Human Abstract (poem)
- Introduction (Blake, 1794)
- The Voice of the Ancient Bard
- Beulah (Blake)
From Fall 2013 course at K-State:
Articles Improved
editThis section contains article that have been expanded throughout the project:
- Golgonooza (expanded)
- David V. Erdman ->
- Spectre (Blake) ->
- The Mental Traveller (substantially expanded)
- Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion (expanded a bit)
- The Sick Rose ->
- The Tyger ->
- Infant Joy ->
Content added or improved in other languages
editThis section will contain a list of new articles and significant improvements to articles in other language Wikipedias
- Russian:
- Вала (Блейк) (=Vala (Blake) )
- Лува (=Luvah )
- Порождение (Блейк) (=Generation (Blake) )
- Беула (Блейк) (=Beulah (Blake) )
- Эдем (Блейк) (=Eden (Blake))
- Тириэль (поэма) (=Tiriel (poem))
- Мифология Уильяма Блейка (=William Blake's mythology)
- Тириэль (=Tiriel)
- Ахания (=Ahania)
- Тармас (=Tharmas)
- Ульро (=Ulro)
- Альбион (Блейк) (=Albion (Blake))
- Голгонуца (=Golgonooza)
- Лос (Блейк) (=Los (Blake))
- Уризен (=Urizen)
- Гилкрист, Александр (=Alexander Gilchrist)
- Головы призраков (=Visionary Heads)
- Иллюстрации Уильяма Блейка к Книге Иова (=William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job)
- Древние (группа художников) (=Ancients (art group))
- Сампсон, Джон (=John Sampson (linguist))
- Swedish
Wikisource
edit- The Notebook (or "Rossetti Manuscript") was used by Blake from c.1787 until c.1818.
- Notebook c.1793 (64 pages in total)
- Notebook c.1800-1803 (10 pages in total)
- Blake's apology for his Catalogue
- The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule
- Do what you will this life's a fiction
New Commons Images
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Songs of Innocence, copy B, 1789 (Library of Congress) object 23 The Little Boy Found
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Songs of Innocence, copy U, 1789 (The Houghton Library) object 15 The Little Boy Found
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy A, 1795 (British Museum) object 22 The Little Boy Found
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy L, 1795 (Yale Center for British Art) object 22 The Little Boy Found
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, 1826 (Library of Congress) object 14 The Little Boy Found
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art), object 14 The Little Boy Found
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Songs of Innocence, copy B, 1789 (Library of Congress) object 23 The Little Boy Found
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) object 14 The Little Boy Found
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Songs of Innocence, copy U, 1789 (The Houghton Library) object 14 The Little Boy Lost
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy A, 1795 (British Museum) object 10 The Little Boy Lost
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Songs of Innocence, copy B, 1789 (Library of Congress) object 22 The Little Boy Lost
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, 1826 (Library of Congress) object 13 The Little Boy Lost
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Songs of Innocence, copy B, 1789 (Library of Congress) object 16 The Chimney Sweeper
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Songs of Innocence, copy U, 1789 (The Houghton Library) object 9 The Chimney Sweeper
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) object 12 The Chimney Sweeper
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, 1826 (Library of Congress) Object 12 The Chimney Sweeper
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) object 12 The Chimney Sweeper
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Songs of Innocence, copy B, 1789 (Library of Congress), object 28 The Blossom
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Songs of Innocence, copy G, 1789 (Yale Center for British Art) object 9 The Blossom
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Songs of Innocence, copy U, 1789 (The Houghton Library) object 8 The Blossom
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) object 11 The Blossom
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, 1826 (Library of Congress) object 11 The Blossom
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) object 11 The Blossom
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Songs of Innocence, copy U, 1789 (The Houghton Library) object 6 The Little Black Boy
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Songs of Innocence, copy U, 1789 (The Houghton Library) object 7 The Little Black Boy
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) object 9 The Little Black Boy
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) object 10 The Little Black Boy
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, 1826 (Library of Congress) object 9 The Little Black Boy
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, 1826 (Library of Congress) object 10 The Little Black Boy
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) object 9 The Little Black Boy
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) object 10 The Little Black Boy
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art), object 8 (The Lamb)
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy C, 1789, 1794 (Library of Congress), object 8 The Lamb
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy A, 1795 (British Museum), object 8 The Lamb
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum), object 8 The Lamb
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) object 6 (The Echoing Green 1)
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) object 7 (The Echoing Green 2)
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy C, 1789, 1794 (Library of Congress) object 13 (The Echoing Green 1)
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy C, 1789, 1794 (Library of Congress) object 14 (The Echoing Green 2)
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) object 6 (The Echoing Green 1)
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) object 7 (The Echoing Green 2)
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) object 5
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy T, 1789, 1794, 1818 (British Museum) object 5
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy C, 1789, 1794 (Library of Congress) object 5
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) object 5
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) object 2
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy B, 1789, 1794 (British Museum) object 2
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) object 2.jpg
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, 1826 (Library of Congress) object 2
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, object 25 Infant Joy
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A page from Copy C of Milton a Poem containing a diagram of the four zoas
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Copy B of Earth's Answer from Songs of Innocennce and of Experience
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Gilchrist Life of Blake 1863 title page
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Songs of Innocence and Experience Copy L Object 7 1795 - The Chimney Sweeper
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy F, object 38 "Holy Thursday".jpg
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Satan Exulting over Eve c1795 Tate Britain
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience copy Y object 42 The Tyger-Detail
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Blake Traveller-For Sexes - Gates of Paradise
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For the Sexes The Gates of Paradise copy D object 9-Alas-Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy L, 1795 (Yale Center for British Art) The Human Abstract
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Human Abstract
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) The Human Abstract
Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion
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Plate 01 Jerusalem (copy A)
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Plate 01 Jerusalem (copy B)
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Plate 01 Jerusalem (copy C)
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Plate 01 Jerusalem (copy E)
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Plate 01 Jerusalem Fitzwilliam Museum
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Plate 26 Jerusalem (copy A)
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Plate 27 Jerusalem (copy A)
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Plate 28 Jerusalem (copy A)
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Plate 29 Jerusalem (copy A)
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Plate 30 Jerusalem (copy A)
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Plate 31 Jerusalem (copy A)
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Plate 85 Jerusalem (copy A)
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Plate 95 Jerusalem (copy A)
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Plate 99 Jerusalem (copy A)
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A crop from File:Blake_Jerusalem_Plate_6_Copy_E.jpg
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Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy E, object 41 Detail-Erdman detail
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Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy E, object 41 Detail
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Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy E, object 41
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Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy E, object 51 (Bentley 51, Erdman 51, Keynes 51)
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Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy E, object 52 (Bentley 52, Erdman 52, Keynes 52) To the Deists
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Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy E, object 53 (Bentley 53, Erdman 53, Keynes 53)
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Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy E, object 76 (Bentley 76, Erdman 76, Keynes 76)
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Blake Jerusalem 77 Erdman P231
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Blake Jerusalem 77 Erdman P233
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Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy E, object 77 (Bentley 77, Erdman 77, Keynes 77) To the Christians
Visionary heads (new)
editSome other Visionary Heads (in the order of Martin Butlin Catalogue)
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A Head of a Young Woman, Butlin #686 recto c 1820 183x188mm – McGill University Library, Montreal
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Satan, Butlin #693 c 1819-20 232x311mm - Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
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The Egyptian Taskmaster & Saul, Butlin #696 1819-20 120x90mm – Private collection, Yorkshire
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David, Butlin #698 c 1819-20 254x180mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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Solomon, Butlin #701 c 1819-20 255x211mm – Edwin Wolf 2nd, Philadelphia
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Solomon, counterproof, Butlin #702 c 1819-20 255x211mm - Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California.jpg
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Nebuchadnezzar Coin, Butlin #704 (tracing by Linnell) 45x50mm G Ingli James Cardiff
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William Blake - A Female Head, Butlin #709, c 1819-20, 240x385mm – Untraced since 1949
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Pindar and Lais the Courtesan, Butlin #711, c 1820, 267x419mm - Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston. Lancashire
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Lais of Corinth, Butlin #712 recto c 1820, 150x140mm - Private Collection, Great Britain
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File:William Blake - Socrates, Butlin #713 c 1819-20 313x201mm - Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California
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Classic Head of a Young Faun, 715 c 1819-20, 227x189mm – Private Collection, Great Britain
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Cassibelane, Butlin #716 c 1819-20 233x176mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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Boadicea, Butlin #717 c 1819-20 205x160mm - Joseph Holland - Los Angeles, California
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Mahomet, Butlin #720 c 1819 311x107mm - Santa Barbara
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Canute, Butlin #721 c 1819-20 258x203mm -National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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An Anglo-Norman King, Butlin #724 c 1819-20 281x213mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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Empress Maud, Butlin #725 c 1819-20 250x182mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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Richard Coer de Lion, Butlin #729 c 1819 178x163mm - Joseph Holland - Los Angeles, California
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Faulconberg the Bastard, Butlin #730 c 1819-20 249x183mm - Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California
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King John, Butlin #731 c 1819-20 248x170mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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King John - Counerproof - Butlin #732 240x190mm Private - Stainford, Conneticut
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Edward III, 736 c 1819-20, 180x140mm – Private Collection, New York
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Wat Tyler, Butlin #737, c1819, 242x103mm - Edwin Wolf 2nd, Philadelphia
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Wat Tyler’s Daughter, Butlin #741 c 1819-20 253x188mm – National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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Hotspur, Butlin #745 c 1819-20 322x178mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California.jpg
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Weish Bard, Job or Moses, Butlin #757 c 1819-20 246x188mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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The Lute Player, Butlin #760 recto, c1819-20, 195x120mm - Untraced since 1959
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9 Grotesque or Demoniac Heads, Butlin #767 recto c 1819-20 183x188mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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A Head, Butlin #767 verso c 1819-20 183x188mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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A Seated Nude Woman by a Window, Butlin #768 recto, c1820-25, 181x227mm - British Museum
see also: Category:Visionary heads by William Blake (51 files in total)
Also, uploading larger versions and better metadata for files found in Commons:Category:Media_from_the_William_Blake_Archive
- Blake's Manuscripts
- Notebook (the "Rossetti Manuscript").
see also:
- Category:Notebook by William Blake - page view (31 files in total)
- Notebook. Blake's Poems from the "Rossetti Manuscript"
- Notebook by William Blake 1793
- Category:Notebook by William Blake 1793 (73 files in total)
- Category:Notebook by William Blake 1800-3 (11 files in total)
- Category:Notebook by William Blake 1807 (6 files in total)
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Notebook - page 059-Central emblem
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Notebook - page 063-Central emblem
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Notebook - page 012-Head of a King
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Notebook - page 021-Head of a Man
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Notebook - page 019-Head of a Woman
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Notebook - page 047-Portrait
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Notebook - page 054-Profile of a Man
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Notebook - page 067-Profile of himself
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Notebook - page 069-Sad face
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Notebook - page 070-Sad face
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Notebook - page 082-Head of a Woman
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Notebook - page 022
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Notebook 1808 - 01 Not real Style of Colouring appears
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Notebook 1808 - 02 You dont believe I wont atempt to make ye
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Notebook 1808 - 05 Anger & Wrath my bosom rends
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Notebook 1808 - 04 Was I angry with Hayley who usd me so ill
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Blake manuscript - Notebook 1807 - 01 Tuesday Janry 20 1807
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Blake manuscript - Notebook 1807 - 02 To Engrave on Pevter
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Blake manuscript - Notebook 1807 - 03 To Woodcut on Pevter
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Blake manuscript - Notebook 1807 - 04 To Woodcut on Copper
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Notebook - page 050
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Notebook - page 052
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Notebook 1808 - 71 Grown old in Love from Seven till Seven times Seven
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Notebook - page 112 reversed
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Notebook - page 074-Tom Paine-detail
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Notebook - page 015-Traveller-detail-center
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Notebook - page 015-Traveller-detail-up-right
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Notebook - page 009-Robert Blake
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Notebook - page 015-Traveller-detail-up-left
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Notebook - page 015-Traveller
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Notebook - page 006-detail-center
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Notebook - page 019-Central emblem
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Notebook - page 028-Central emblem
Other outcomes
editTo do
edit- Robert Blair's poem The Grave Done
- Statue of Newton (after Blake) in the British Library courtyard - See image at File:NewtonBlakePaolozzi1.jpg
- Expand two most popularly taught Blake works Songs of Innocence and Experience and Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- William Blake's illustrations of The Divine Comedy [1] - User:Petropoxy (Lithoderm Proxy) interested
- Poems missing from Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Flesh out Ancients (art group) and the associated biography pages particularly - Francis Oliver Finch and John Giles - two members of the Ancients (art group), Arthur Tatham
- Articles for items listed at http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/indexworks.htm
- Adding information about extent copies, and publication notes (the Blake Archive's description are most authoritative and recent in this regard)
- A Large Book of Designs - Commons Category and Record item at William Blake Archive
- The Approach of Doom - An early experimental print by Blake, at British Museum record and mentioned in There is No Natural Religion - Another scholarly source.
- Anthony Stephen Mathew- supporter of Blake found on There is No Natural Religion, an we have a Portrait of Mathew on Commons Done
- Expand the sourly lacking information about Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Gilchrist (writer) and their Life of William Blake - Google search of Archive's mentions of Gilchrest
- Expand information about major scholar David V. Erdman Done
- Add reference for the mythological character Fuzon (Blake)
- Rossetti Manuscript - http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/3-1862.blms.radheader.html and the poem from that manuscript Never pain to tell thy love Done
- For Children: The Gates of Paradise - record at http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=gates-child&java=no
- For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise - record at http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/indexworks.htm , also on wikisource at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/For_the_Sexes:_The_Gates_of_Paradise
- Humanity (Blake), Emanation (Blake) and Shadow (Blake) - three more mythological elements of the fourfold nature of humanity according to Hogan, Joseph. "Glossary". The Urizen Books of William Blake. Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
- Improve John Varley (painter), collaborator with Blake on Visionary Heads