Unknown Face (Blake: Proverbs of Hell)

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Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake): Francis Bacon, 1955 (Tate Gallery)

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

William Blake: from Proverbs of Hell, c. 1789

William Blake, 1757-1827, life mask made in 1823: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)

Life [?] or death [?] mask of Unknown Woman: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)

John Keats, 1795-1821, life mask: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)

Life [?] or death [?] mask of Princess Tolstoya, 1800-1873: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)

William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, life mask made in 1815: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)

[Life mask of] Unknown Woman, a "cautious type" i.e. possibly suicidal: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, life mask: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)