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Visionary Heads
The Visionary Heads is a series of black chalk and pencil drawings produced by William Blake after 1818 by request of John Varley, the watercolour artist and astrologer. The subjects of the sketches, many of whom are famous historical and mythical characters, appeared to Blake in visions during late night meetings with Varley, as if sitting for portraits. The drawings are contained in three sketchbooks and there are a number of loose leaves indicating the existence of a fourth sketchbook. Like most of Blake's other works, they have
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"The Folio Blake-Varley Sketchbook".
The folio size Blake-Varley Sketchbook has not been discovered in whole. However, three loose pages with the visionary heads of Pindar, Corinna and Lais are extent. The available images are from a 42 x 27 cm album with the watermark: W TURNER & SON.
Loose Visionary Heads.
There are more than 50 loose visionary heads including:
- Satan with a plumed helmet
- Satan as a fiend at Blake's grated