ABSTRACT
In the late 1940s, the National Trust of England acquired a country house, Arlington Court, and discovered in it a painting, as Kathleen Raine says, “among the broken glass and rubbish on top of a pantry cupboard.” Raine describes it as “one of Blake's most beautiful paintings” (1977: 3). The painting bore an 1821 date but no title. Subsequently, it was provisionally entitled The Sea of Time and Space or, alternatively, The Cycle of the Life of Man. (The painting is now known as The Arlington Court Picture.)
