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While apprenticed to the engraver James Basire, Blake prepared an exquisite series of watercolors depicting monuments in Westminster Abbey. Blake's designs served as the basis for engravings used to illustrate various publications of the Society of Antiquaries. (Although the sheets are undoubtedly Blake's work, Basire's signature, as master of the shop, appears on them.) The elegant, serene, and elongated medieval figures would have a profound impact on Blake's mature artistic style. Here, he presents a monument, newly discovered in 1775, of the 7th-century East Anglian king believed to have founded Westminster Abbey.
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