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After their first meeting, William Blake and Catherine Sophia Boucher (or Butcher; 1762–1831) each knew that they had met their future spouse. They were married a year later, in 1782, and remained together with barely a single day of separation for nearly forty-five years. William taught Catherine to read, to use a printing press, and to color the pages of his illuminated books with watercolor. Here, on the back of a loose page from William Hayley's Ballads, Blake sketched his wife in a moment of quiet industry, perhaps stitching the bindings of a book.
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