More from Henry Eliot
William Blake’s angel-filled tree on Peckham Rye
Where William Blake, at the age of 8, saw a vision of a tree “filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars.”
William Blake the engraver’s apprentice
The site of the workshop of the engraver James Basire, to whom visionary artist William Blake was apprenticed, 1772-1779
William Blake’s radical printmaking technique
The site where radical English poet, painter and engraver, William Blake, lived with his wife Catherine for five years, and where he developed his revolutionary printmaking technique.
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The Inner Temple
An account of a patch of land between Fleet Street and the Thames. Now occupied residentially by judges and senior lawyers and enclosing the Inner Temple library and nearby Temple Church, the land was originally leased by the Knights Templar in the fourteenth century. Its rose garden was later – according to William Shakespeare – the place where the fifteenth century War of the Roses began.
