Hired to Depress: A Digital Scholarly Edition of William Blake's Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses

Blake Marginalia SA xxix A01


Here is an Acknowledgement of all that I could wish
But if it is True. Why are we to be told that Masters who could Think had not the Judgment to Perform the Inferior Parts of Art as Reynolds artfully calls them. But that we are to learn to Think from Great Masters & to Learn to Perform from Underlings? Learn to design from Rafael & to Execute from Rubens [line cut away]

Annotation written in pen.

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