- October 24-November 22, 1964
William Blake: Poet, Printer, Prophet
Overview: This was the first American showing of an exhibition arranged by the Blake Trust. It had been held the previous summer at the Tate Gallery in London. Rare books and manuscripts were lent to the exhibition by Lessing Rosenwald, Paul Mellon, Sir Geoffrey Keynes, founder of the Blake Trust, and Kerrison Preston. Also included were facsimile books made for the Blake Trust by the Trianon Press, Paris.
A large part of the exhibition was circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
Attendance: 10,071 (29 days)
Location: Ground Floor, Galleries G-9, G-10, G-11, G-12
Commemorative handbook: An Exhibition of the Illuminated Books of William Blake: Poet, Printer, Prophet, by Geoffrey Keynes. Paris: Trianon Press for the Blake Trust, 1964.
- Other venues:
- Tate Gallery, London
- Summer 1964
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- December 5, 1964-January 3, 1965
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- January 16-February 14, 1965
- Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
- February 27-March 28, 1965
- Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
- April 10-May 9, 1965
- Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania
- July 3-August 1, 1965
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
- September 25-October 24, 1965
- Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
- December 18, 1965-January 1, 1966
- Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
- November 19-December 18, 1966
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