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Description William Blake's portrait in profile, added later to Songs of Innocence and Experience. (The note at the bottom of the page is dated 1863).
Date "The original of this watercolour is a miniature, made by Linnell in 1821. This larger version was painted to be engraved as the frontispiece of Alexander Gilchrist's Life of Blake, published in 1863" (National Portrait Gallery, London)
Source Library of Congress[1][2]
Author
John Linnell  (1792–1882)  wikidata:Q250732 s:en:Author:John Linnell
 
John Linnell
Description British landscape painter and engraver
Date of birth/death 16 June 1792 Edit this at Wikidata 20 January 1882 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bloomsbury Edit this at Wikidata Redhill Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q250732
Other versions Fully restored version of File:William Blake.jpg. Rotated and cropped (slight perspective crop). Dirt and scratches removed. Gradient mask applied. Buckled paper effect corrected through multiple brightness gradient masks. Histogram adjusted and colors balanced. See also File:William Blake1.tif (partial restoration) and File:William Blake3.tif (full restoration, uncompressed).

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