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William Blake archive online

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William Blake printed some of his poems using a technique he invented: writing backward on a copper plate with a quill pen, using ink that was impervious to acid, and printing it on fine-woven paper, finishing with watercolors, pen and ink. Those books are in museums and special collections libraries. Now, scholars and students can study them online through an archive created by UNC-Chapel Hill, the University of Rochester and the University of California at Riverside. The archive is at www.blakearchive .org . It contains about 5,500 digitized images from Blake's books, paintings, engravings, drawings, manuscripts and original prints. A recent grant will allow for the addition of 500 images.

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