Ronald Blythe examines William Blake’s influence on the work of the 19th-century artist Samuel Palmer
Samuel Palmer was in his early twenties when he wrote in his notebook, ‘The Glories of Heaven might be tried — hymns sung among the hills of Paradise at eventide…’ As a subject for a painting he means.
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