William BlakeVerenigd Koninkrijk, 1757–1827Homerus op een adelaar
Kan ik het zien?
Onbekend
Waar is „Homerus op een adelaar” nu? Collectie: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam. Onbekend.
Amsterdam, Nederland
De eigenaar is bekend; of het werk nu te zien is, is onbekend.
- Bron
- Het museum
Gegevens
- Inventarisnummer
- RP-P-1975-75-1
Wat het toont
In de catalogus
Bronnen
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- Afbeelding: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam — public domain
In het leven van William Blake
Het hele levenseptember 1800 – september 1803 · Werkzaam in
Felpham
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 · Woonplaats
Broadwick Street
oktober 1803 – 1820 · Woonplaats
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.
after 1804
Cromek cheats Blake; Stothard gets the commission
Having conceived the idea of portraying the characters of Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales”, Blake approached the dealer Robert Cromek with a view to marketing an engraving; Cromek, thinking Blake too eccentric to produce a popular work, promptly commissioned Blake's friend Thomas Stothard instead. When Blake learned he had been cheated, he broke off contact with Stothard.
