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This tormented figure among flames is now the icon of the new acquisition of London’s Tate Gallery: eleven engravings by the artist and poet William Blake. The etchings which represent tormented figures and dark landscapes, faithful to the artist’s typical visionary character, were found by chance in the Seventies, inside an old train timetable which had ended up in a clearance sale of second-hand books. 441,000 pounds gathered by the Art Fund, by the Tate’s partners and by the donations of individual citizens, have made the acquisition of these extraordinary pieces possible.
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