£80
William Blake (1757-1827) engraver after John Flaxman (1755-1826), stipple engraving and etching on paper, Echidna The Untameable of Soul, from Compositions from the Works, Days and Theogony of Hesiod, published by
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown 1817, 13cm x 28cm, mounted, glazed and framed. Flaxman, a close friend of Blake, was the much more successful artist at the
time and used his name to help the struggling Blake with engraving commissions. According to The William Blake Archive, the Hesiod etchings “are one of Blake’s
major endeavours as a commercial etcher/engraver of designs by other artists … Without the Hesiod project, Blake and his wife Catherine might have descended into
dire poverty."
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