Rare print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem expected to sell for up to £120,000

Rare print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem expected to sell for up to £120,000

The print comes from the rare first issue of Blake’s Songs Of Experience. A rare print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem is to go on auction where it is expected to fetch up to £120,000. The print comes from the rare first issue of Blake’s Songs Of Experience, from around 1794, which is made up of just four copies and contains 17 of Blake’s poems, illustrated, etched and printed by the poet. Murray Macaulay, Christie’s head of prints for Europe,…

William Blake, Marxist revolutionary? His call to cast off the “mind-forged manacles” was one step toward utopian socialism

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