Hired to Depress: A Digital Scholarly Edition of William Blake's Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds' DiscoursesMain MenuWho is William Blake?Just who is William Blake? And why does his scribbling in a book matter?Who is Sir Joshua Reynolds?Important FiguresTitle PageContents of The First VolumeDedication and To the KingSome Account of the Life and Writings of Sir Joshua ReynoldsWritten by Edmond Malone, Esq.The First DiscourseBibliographyElizabeth Pottera6e9fb7ea6eda3e5063e2aee73ca5f372e99b8f3
"The First Meeting of the Society of Arts at Rawthmell's Coffee House, 22 March 1754"
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12017-01-11T22:27:49-08:00Blake Marginalia To the King A013plain2017-03-18T11:47:13-07:00O Society for Encouragement of Art O King & Nobility of England! Where have you hid Fuseli’s Milton Is Satan troubled at his Exposure
Editorial Note: The "Society for Encouragement of Art" refers to The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in London. More commonly called the RSA, for Royal Society of Arts. This institution was founded to "embolden enterprise, enlarge science, refine art, improve our manufacturers and extend our commerce" in 1754.
Fuseli’s Milton Gallery in London was inspired from the success of Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery. Rallying nationalist artistic pride, Joseph Johnson commissioned Fuseli for forty paintings, like Milton Dictating to His Daughter, which would later be rendered into engravings by other artists.
