Happy Birthday William Blake

Celebrate Blake's birthday by visiting "Luminous Worlds.." at the Legion of Honor. The show closes tomorrow so this may be your last chance in a long time to see these exquisite works on paper.

http://www.examiner.com/article/luminous-worlds-british-works-on-paper-1760-1900-at-the-legion-of-honor

In his lifetime, William Blake sold fewer than thirty copies of "Songs of Innocence and Experience."

‘Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve’; watercolor by William Blake for John Milton’s Paradise Lost, 1808

Born: November 28, 1757, Soho, London, United Kingdom
Died: August 12, 1827, Westminster, United Kingdom

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
William Blake Archive: http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/