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William Blake, Psychic?"When William Blake was fourteen years old, his father planned to apprentice him to the engraver William Ryland. He took the boy to visit Ryland's studio and the arrangement seemed acceptable to both parties, when young Blake suddenly took a violent dislike to his future master. The only justification he could make to his father was: 'I do not like the man's face. He looks as if he will live to be hanged.' Ryland was then a famous and respected figure, so the boy's objection seemed totally irrational, but his father was obliged to forgo his original intention and apprentice William to the comparatively unknown engraver James Basire. Many years later Ryland became bankrupt after the failure of his business and in his desperation committed a forgery. His crime was discovered and he was hanged."
Blake, William (1757-1827) English artist, poet, and mystic [noted for his Songs of Innocence (1789), Songs of Experience (1794) - both of which contain his own engraved illustrations]
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