Robert N. Essick

Robert N. Essick has been collecting and writing about Blake for over 30 years. Current projects include continued work on the online Blake Archive, an essay (with Joe Viscomi) on Blake's color printing methods, a facsimile edition of the Huntington Library copy of Visions of the Daughters of Albion, a Blake exhibition at the Huntington Art Gallery to open in January 2003, an essay (with Rosamund Paice) on some newly-discovered Blake pencil sketches, and the annual review of Blake sales for Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. He is a Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.