Blake in Exhibition and on Display, 1904–2014

Abstract

This article comments on the record of exhibition and display of Blake’s works in Britain from 1904 to 1914. It provides two check-lists: one of Blake loan exhibitions held in the UK over that period, the other a record of Blake’s presence on display at the national collection of British art, the Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain) in London. These records suggest the possibility of an as-yet-unwritten account of Blake’s reception history in the twentieth century, based on physical encounter with the works as well as the record of textual commentary.