Set in front of the British Library on the Euston Road, this statue is modeled on Blake's Newton, from the series of twelve large watercolours produced by Blake in Lambeth in the mid-1790s.

To the eighteenth century Newton represented the triumph of rational thought, the bringing of order to the Universe. But Blake could not forgive Newton the omission of a spiritual dimension from his theories. In a poem contained in a letter addressed to his patron Thomas Butts, Blake famously concluded:

May God us keep
From single vision and Newton's sleep.

Nearest Underground:
King's Cross