On William Blake's watercolour illustrations for the 1797 edition of Edward Young's 'Night Thoughts'. Led by Luisa Calè
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8 December 2010 - In this session we will discussed the 1797 edn of Edward Young's Night Thoughts, which reproduced the first four (out of nine) nights with 43 engravings by Blake. Blake disbound and mounted the pages of a copy of the 1742-5 Night Thoughts on larger sheets of paper and illustrated each page for a total of 537 watercolour surrounds.
In the introduction, Luisa Cale compared the two versions and raised some questions that this edition opened up in her research project on 'The Book Unbound'. She focused on the material composition, poetics, and aesthetics of the composite page, on book practices, and on the different rhythms of reading and viewing in the two versions, and then looked at a couple of examples
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Ann Lewis