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[To] Mr [George] Cumberland, Bishopsgate,
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Windsor Great Park
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Hercules Buildings, Lambeth. Augst 26. 1799
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Dear Cumberland
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I ought long ago to have written to you to thank you for
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your kind recommendation to Dr Trusler which tho it has faild
of
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success is not the less to be rememberd by me with Gratitude--
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I have made him a Drawing in my best manner he has sent it
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back with a Letter full of Criticisms in which he says it accords
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not with his Intentions which are to Reject all Fancy from his
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Work. How far he Expects to please I cannot tell. But as I
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cannot paint Dirty rags & old Shoes where I ought to place Naked
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Beauty or simple ornament. I despair of Ever pleasing one Class
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of Men--Unfortunately our authors of books are among this Class
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how soon we Shall have a change for the better I cannot Prophecy.
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Dr Trusler says
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"Your Fancy from what I have seen of it. & I have seen
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variety at Mr Cumberlands seems to be in the other world or
the
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World of Spirits. which accords not with my Intentions. which
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whilst living in This World Wish to follow the Nature of it"
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I could not help Smiling at the difference between the
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doctrines of Dr Trusler & those of Christ. But however for
his
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own sake I am sorry that a Man should be so enamourd of
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Rowlandsons caricatures as to call them copies from life &
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manners or fit Things for a Clergyman to write upon
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Pray let me intreat you to persevere in your Designing it is
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the only source of Pleasure all your other pleasures depend
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upon It. It is the Tree Your Pleasures are the Fruit. Your
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Inventions of Intellectual Visions are the Stamina of every thing
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you value. Go on if not for your own sake yet for ours who love
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& admire your works. but above all For the Sake of the Arts. Do
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not throw aside for any long time the honour intended you by
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Nature to revive the Greek workmanship. I study your outlines as
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usual just as if they were antiques.
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As to Myself about whom you are so kindly Interested. I
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live by Miracle. I am Painting small Pictures from the Bible.
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For as to Engraving in which art I cannot reproach myself with
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any neglect yet I am laid by in a corner as if I did not Exist &
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Since my Youngs Night Thoughts have been publishd Even Johnson &
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Fuseli have discarded my Graver. But as I know that He who Works
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& has his health cannot starve. I laugh at Fortune & Go on &
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on. I think I foresee better Things than I have ever seen. My
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Work pleases my employer & I have an order for Fifty small
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Pictures at One Guinea each which is Something better than mere
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copying after another artist. But above all I feel myself happy
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& contented let what will come having passed now near twenty
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years in ups & downs I am used to them & perhaps a little
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practise in them may turn out to benefit. It is now Exactly
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Twenty years since I was upon the ocean of business & Tho I laugh
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at Fortune I am perswaded that She Alone is the Governor of
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Worldly Riches. & when it is Fit She will call on me till then I
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wait with Patience in hopes that She is busied among my Friends.
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With Mine & My Wifes best compliments to Mrs Cumberland
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I remain
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Yours sincerely
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WILLm BLAKE
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