3. Blake’s Painting Materials, Technical Art History, and the Legacy of G.E. Bentley Jr

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations with Permissions ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction: Blake in Our Time – Minute Particulars 1
7. Part One: ‘Every Minute Particular Is Holy’: Materials
8. 1. Collecting Blake 19
9. 2. Two Fake Blakes Revisited; One Dew-Smith Revealed 35
10. 3. Blake’s Painting Materials, Technical Art History, and the Legacy of G.E. Bentley Jr 79
11. Part Two: ‘For Friendship’s Sake’: Friends And Patrons
12. 4. New Light on the Mathews: Flaxman and Blake’s Early Gothicism 95
13. 5. ‘a Ladys Book’: Blake’s Engravings for Hayley’s The Triumphs of Temper 105
14. 6. More on Blake’s (and Bentley’s) ‘White Collar Maecenas’: Thomas Butts, His Wife’s Family of Artisans, and the Methodist Withams of St Bartholomew the Great 131
15. 7. ‘Went to see Blake – also to Surgeons college’: Blake and George Cumberland’s Pocketbooks 165
16. 8. George Richmond, Blake’s True Heir? 201
17. Part Three: ‘What I Both See And Hear’: Architecture and Industry
18. 9. William Blake and Chichester 215
19. 10. William Blake and the Straw Paper Manufactory at Millbank 233
20. Epilogue: A Memorable Fancy 262
21. Appendix William Blake in Toronto: The Bentley Collection at Victoria University Library 265
22. Selected Bibliography 273
23. Contributors 285
24. Index 289