Blake marginalia Contents Page A02
Language
of Art
Copy for
Ever. is
My Rule
Editorial Note:
A key element to the art of engraving is that apprentices are rigorously trained to copy and innovate other artists and nature. Blake references copywork in other places of Discourses: “[copying] is the only School to the Language of Art” (E 638) and “the difference between a bad Artist & a Good One Is the Bad Artist seems to copy a Great Deal: The Good One Really Does Copy a Great Deal” (645).
