After his marriage in 1782, Blake moved out of the parental home in Broad Street to lodgings in Green Street, off the South-East corner of Leicester Square. Gilchrist reports that Blake's father, angered by his son's humble marriage, had in fact expelled him from the house.

In the late eighteenth century Leicester Square was a fashionable residence for artists, and both Hogarth and Sir Joshua Reynolds had lived there. Blake and his wife, Catherine, resided here for just two years before returning to Broad Street when Blake's father died in the summer of 1784.

Green Street no longer exists, and this picture shows nothing more than the approximate former site of Blake's residence.

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