{"id":701,"date":"2015-05-19T14:52:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T14:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2015-05-19T14:52:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T14:52:40","slug":"blake-on-the-twenty-pound-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Blake on the Twenty Pound Note?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_703\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mw00609.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-703\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-703 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mw00609-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"by Thomas Phillips, oil on canvas, 1807\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mw00609-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mw00609-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mw00609.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Blake, by Thomas Phillips, oil on canvas, 1807.\u00a0 National Portrait Gallery 212.\u00a0 Kindly made available under a Creative Commons License.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Bank of England has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/banknotes\/Pages\/characters\/nexttwenty.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">launched a public consultation to help them decide which figure should appear on the next twenty pound note<\/a>.\u00a0 They&#8217;re looking to &#8216;<span lang=\"EN-US\">celebrate Britain\u2019s achievements in the visual arts&#8217;.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2015\/may\/19\/visual-artist-to-grace-new-20-note-experts-suggest-blake-or-turner\" target=\"_blank\">According to <em>The Guardian<\/em>, leading contenders include J.M.W. Turner and William Blake<\/a>.\u00a0 With the new Jane Austen tenner due out soon, there&#8217;s a possibility that quite a number of Romantic-period faces could be in circulation when the new note appears in 2020.\u00a0 Nominations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/banknotes\/Pages\/characters\/nexttwenty.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">can be made here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of England has just launched a public consultation to help them decide which figure should appear on the next twenty pound note.\u00a0 They&#8217;re looking to &#8216;celebrate Britain\u2019s achievements&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=701\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}