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Johnson, Stedman, Blake, and the Monkeys.(Joseph Johnson, John Gabriel Stedman, William Blake, "The Mecco and Kishee Kishee Monkeys", "The Quato and Saccawinkee Monkeys")

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20020622
Author:Lee, Debbie

In his biography of Joseph Johnson, Gerald Tyson explains that between 1788 and 1795, Johnson consistently published books with implicit radical content. To do so, Johnson often grafted collaborative relationships between two personalities of such opposing natures that the end result was a gamble between utter disaster and pure brilliance. One of the best examples of this, I'd like to suggest, exists in William Blake's engravings for John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam. Johnson received the manuscript of Stedman's ...

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