A colourful etching showing a red-winged figure pouring something on a body lying prone beneath his feet. A long-haired figure sits weeping over the body.
William Blake, Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils, c.1826. Tate, Presented by Miss Mary H. Dodge through the Art Fund 1918. Photo: Tate.

Talk

Talk: William Blake and the Present

30 April 18.30 - 19.45

Location
Lecture Theatre
Admission

A free talk with Dr Esther Chadwick Head of the History of Art Department, Courtauld Institute.

In this talk, Dr Esther Chadwick will examine how William Blake engaged with the politics, society and art of his contemporary world. In their often strange intermixing of past, present and future, Blake's works helps us think through the question of what it meant to be a truly ‘contemporary’ artist around the year 1800.

Dr Esther Chadwick is a Senior Lecturer in History of Art and the Head of the History of Art Department at The Courtauld Institute, London.

In association with Trinity College Dublin, this free talk is open to all. Booking required at the link above. 

This talk is presented on the occasion of our exhibition, William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy. 

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