Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for William Blake across 5 places, from 1757 to 1804.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place William Blake is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where William Blake was documented, and when
28 November 1757exact date
Sohoattested“William Blake was born on 28 November 1757 at 28 Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in Soho, London.”source: Wikipedia: William Blake
1790 to 1800period
North Lambethattested“From 1790 to 1800, William Blake lived in North Lambeth, London, at 13 Hercules Buildings, Hercules Road.”source: Wikipedia: William Blake
1800year
Felphamattested“In 1800 Blake moved to a a cottage at Felpham, in Sussex (now West Sussex), to take up a job illustrating the works of William Hayley, a minor poet.”source: Wikipedia: William Blake
1800year
Sussexattested“In 1800 Blake moved to a a cottage at Felpham, in Sussex (now West Sussex), to take up a job illustrating the works of William Hayley, a minor poet.”source: Wikipedia: William Blake
1804year
Londonattested“Blake returned to London in 1804 and began to write and illustrate Jerusalem (1804–20), his most ambitious work.”source: Wikipedia: William Blake
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In each of these, a source puts William Blake and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that William Blake was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
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8 October 1779exact date
Strand, Londonmentioned“On 8 October 1779, Blake became a student at the Royal Academy in Old Somerset House, near the Strand.”source: Wikipedia: William Blake
8 October 1779exact date
Royal Academymentioned“On 8 October 1779, Blake became a student at the Royal Academy in Old Somerset House, near the Strand.”source: Wikipedia: William Blake
1780 to 1808period
Royal Academymentioned“Certainly Blake was not averse to exhibiting at the Royal Academy, submitting works on six occasions between 1780 and 1808.”source: Wikipedia: William Blake
June 1780month
Great Queen Streetmentioned“Blake's first biographer, Alexander Gilchrist, records that in June 1780 Blake was walking towards Basire's shop in Great Queen Street when he was swept up by a rampaging mob that stormed Newgate Prison.”source: Wikipedia: William Blake
18 August 1782exact date
St Mary's Church, Batterseamentioned“William married Catherine, who was five years his junior, on 18 August 1782 in St Mary's Church, Battersea.”source: Wikipedia: William Blake
1784year
Moonmentioned“That same year, Blake composed his unfinished manuscript An Island in the Moon (1784).”source: Wikipedia: William Blake
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting.
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back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
A tag says how the fact is carried by its source: documented a structured,
explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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