You may know William Blake as a poet, or even as #38 in the BBC’s 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. But did you know that Blake was also an artist and print maker who made illuminated (f… ...

But it seems that even William Blake was prone to doodling as a child. Scientists have discovered a series of boyhood doodles engraved on copperplates by Blake around 250 years ago.

Plate 8 from “America, a Prophecy,” printed about 1807, by William Blake. Color-printed relief etching with pen and ink and watercolor. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven ...