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Date: Saturday, 28 November 2020
Time: 19:00 20:30
Raise a glass to William on his birthday and another glass to the launch of the Blake Society’s magazine VALA

Blake’s Night

Raise a glass to William on his Birthday and another glass to the launch of the Blake Society’s new magazine VALA

THOU HOLDER OF IMMORAL DRINK

I GIVE THEE PURPOSE NOW I THINK

BLAKE IN ANGUISH FELPHAM AUG 1803

Blake’s Rummer (acquired 1988)

Corning Museum of Glass

Overall H: 13.8 cm; Rim Diam: 10.8 cm

Colorless lead glass; blown, diamond-point engraved (scratched and stippled), ground. Large tulip-shaped bowl; diamond-point engraved on one side “THOU HOLDER OF IMMORAL DRINK / I GIVE THEE PURPOSE NOW I THINK,” and on the opposite side, a diamond-stippled full-length angel with raised arms, one wing fully detailed with feathers, the other only outlined; bladed collar at the base of the bowl inscribed in diamond point “BLAKE IN ANGUISH FELPHAM AUG 1803”; thick, waisted, solid stem, ground at the base, where it is set into a silvered brass circular foot, the underside filled with plaster and covered with textured black paper.

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