7.30 Tuesday 19 May 2009
City of Westminster Archives Centre
10 St. Ann’s Street London SW1P 2DE

Blake’s 1809 Exhibition: A Lecture by Martin Myrone

Tate Britain is hosting the first ever show devoted to William Blake’s only one-man exhibition and reuniting nine of the surviving works, exactly two hundred years after they went on display in May 1809. The original exhibition was Blake’s most significant attempt to create a public reputation for himself as a painter and provided a vital insight into the artist’s self-image and ambitions. A new edition of Blake’s Descriptive Catalogue (1809), edited by Martin Myrone will be published by Tate Publishing to coincide with the show. Martin Myrone is the Blake curator at Tate Britain, as well as specialising in 18th and 19th century British art.