vol. 58 | no. 3 | winter 2024–25 BLAKE an illustrated quarterly Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Tilar J. Mazzeo, Colby College Josephine A. McQuail, independent scholar Robert W. Rix, University of Copenhagen Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill David Worrall, The Nottingham Trent University Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery, London, retired Tristanne J. Connolly, University of Waterloo Detlef W. Dörrbecker, University of Trier, retired Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside Angela Esterhammer, Victoria College, University of Toronto A D V I S O R Y B O A R D A N I L L U S T R A T E D Q U A R T E R L Y VOLUME 58 NUMBER 3 WINTER 2024–25 C O N T E N T S www.blakequarterly.org © 2025 Copyright Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Cover: Side view of “Albion Rose” in the room of the future at the exhibition William Blake’s Universe, Fitzwilliam Museum, 2024. Photograph by Thomas Adank, reproduced by kind permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum. E D I T O R S editor: Morton D. Paley co-editor, 1970–2024: Morris Eaves book review editor: Sibylle Erle exhibitions editor: Luisa Calè bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographers (music): Camila Oliveira, Jason Whittaker sales review editor: Mark Crosby managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 Articles “Symbols of embodied agency”: The Reception of William Blake’s Engravings for John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative (1796) in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture By Caroline Anjali Ritchie “Unentangled in the intricate windings of modern practice”: William Blake’s Apprentice Copperplates and Engravings By Mark Crosby Reviews Brian Russell Graham, Speech Acts in Blake’s “Milton” Reviewed by Annise Rogers William Blake’s Universe, Fitzwilliam Museum, 23 February–19 May 2024 William Blake’s Universe, ed. David Bindman and Esther Chadwick Reviewed by Luisa Calè