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William Blake

1757–1827

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The Circle of the Lustful: Francesca da Rimini (‘The Whirlwind of Lovers’)

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892
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Ciampolo the Barrator Tormented by the Devils

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892

The Baffled Devils Fighting

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892

The Six-Footed Serpent Attacking Agnolo Brunelleschi

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892

The Serpent Attacking Buoso Donati

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892

The Pit of Disease: The Falsifiers

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892

Dante Striking against Bocca Degli Abati

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892

Job and his Family

William Blake
1828, reprinted 1874
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The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams (after William Blake)

Attributed to John Linnell
c.1825
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The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams (counterproof)

After William Blake
after c.1819–20
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Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake)

Francis Bacon
1955

The Unfinished Conversation

Sir John Akomfrah CBE
2012

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Tim Winton

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Raymond Antrobus

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