Strange and marvellous: William Blake’s studio recreated in Oxford show

Exhibition opening at the Ashmolean features more than 90 works, tracing Blake’s life from apprentice to master

Visitors to a new William Blake show opening in Oxford will learn much about a “strange and marvellous creature”, not least that the possibly 5ft 4in artist must have had considerable strength to have operated the heavy oak wooden press which took up so much of his small London studio.

“It’s a hefty great thing,” said the writer and Blake fan Philip Pullman admiringly. “It must have been a real struggle to use.”

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