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NEWSLETTER

Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels

Blake’s 1808 watercolor, Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels, from the series of Paradise Lost illustrations commissioned by Butts, has been reproduced by dust-grain gravure, a rarely used continuous-tone process similar to aquatint, by Hugh Stoneman at the Print Centre, London. Dust-grain gravure was developed in the nineteenth century for monochromatic printing. This is the first time it has been used to produce a print in color, requiring three plates. Each print is extensively colored by hand after printing.

Blake’s Satan is being issued in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Masterprints series, which also includes several other reproductions, by various media, of works from the National Collection of British Watercolours in the V&A. The prints are issued in certified, hand-numbered editions of 575 and range in price from $300 to $475. Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels (image size 20.5 inches × 15.5 inches, on a sheet approx. 30.5 by 24.5 inches) is listed at $475. It is being made available to Blake’s subscribers for $425, including shipping. Send orders to V&A Masterprints, 48 South Molton Street, London W1Y2JU; telephone 071-499-5582; fax 071-491-9985.

Print Edition

  • Publisher
  • Department of English, University of Rochester
  • Rochester, NY, USA
    • Editors
    • Morris Eaves
    • Morton D. Paley
    • Managing Editor
    • Patricia Neill
    • Bibliographer
    • D.W. Dörrbecker
    • Review Editor
    • Nelson Hilton
    • Associate Editor for Great Britain
    • David Worrall
    • Contributors
    • Martin Butlin
    • E.B. Bentley
    • Morton D. Paley
    • Michael Srigley
    • Joan K. Stemmler
    • Julia M. Wright

    Digital Edition

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    • Robert Essick, University of California, Riverside
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    • Joe Fletcher
    • Technical Editor
    • Michael Fox
    • Previous Project Manager and Technical Editor
    • William Shaw
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    • Adam McCune
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    • Ashley Reed
    • Jennifer Park
    • Scott Robinson
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    • William Shaw
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    • Project Assistants:
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    • Rachael Isom,
    • Mary Learner,
    • Jennifer Park,
    • Ashley Reed,
    • Adair Rispoli,
    • Scott Robinson
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