Who will Dare to Say that Polite
Art is Encouraged or Either Wished
or Tolerated in a Nation where
The Society for the Encouragement
of Art Suffered
Barry to give
them his Labour for Nothing
A Society composed of the
Flower of the English Nobility
& Gentry ________ Suffering
an Artist to Starve while he
Supported Really what They
under pretence of Encouraging were
Endeavoring to Depress.-- Barry
told me that while he Did that
Work he Lived on Bread & Apples
Editorial Note:Blake's reference "that Work" may be
The Progress of Human Knowledge. Written first in pencil and later pen. This suggest different reading and annotating moments.
