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  • Francis Place at Coxwold

    Francis Place at Coxwold

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    Andrew Green
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    I’ve written before about Francis Place, late seventeenth century artist and potter, and about Coxwold in north Yorkshire.  This piece brings the two together. Place was a landscapist ahead of his time, in vision (he anticipated the watercolour painters of the second half of the eighteenth century) and also in method (he walked for long…

  • Catherine Blake’s vision

    Catherine Blake’s vision

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    Andrew Green
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    Of all the astonishing visual images William Blake created, between the mid-1770s and his death in 1827, one of the most intriguing is a small sepia wash drawing (244 x 211mm) on a sheet of paper now in the Tate Gallery.  It’s usually known by the title A vision: the inspiration of the poet.  Since…