"Ancient Britons" by William Blake 1809.

In 2009, Tate Britain chose to recreate the only one man show that the artist William Blake [1757- 1827] ever put on in his life.

"The 1809 exhibition, held in Golden Square, Soho, proved a turning point in the artist's career. Embittered by its appalling reception, he withdrew even more from the art world into solitary eccentricity."

It took place upstairs of the premises of the family hosiery business in Golden Square, London.

The exhibition displayed 16 works. Only 11 survive. One of the missing works is the huge, by Blake's standards "The Ancient Britons" which was three metres by four metres. It has been missing since the 1860's.

As well as contextualing the 10 works from the orignal show, with surviving work by contemporary artists. it was chosen by the Tate torepresent the missing five works with blanks spaces.

Seen in the picture below, from the website of Studio Emmi, who designed the show, the same area as the dimensions of "The Ancient Britons" was marked out by white against the cream/grey walls of the gallery.