Master and Apprentice: William Blake, England's visionary artist, poet and printmaker, at the Ashmolean

Printmaker, painter and revolutionary poet William Blake lived at No 13 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth from 1791 until 1800.

It was in this house that he produced the combined volume Songs of Innocence and of Experience, America a Prophecy, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and other prophetic books (he would later call these his 'Lambeth Books'), as well as the series of twelve watercolours that includes Newton and Nebuchadnezzar. The designing, printing, colouring and selling of Blake's books all took place at his house.

In this film we tour Blake's recreated studio, made from recently discovered plans, for the exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Blake saw medieval illustrated manuscripts during his apprenticeship at Westminster Abbey, and through his 'illuminated printing' process aspired to create comparable works.

Blake's uncompromising, innovative approach to bringing image and text together are revealed, as well as manuscripts and magnificent printed books gathered from museums around the world - many of which will be rested for ten years or more following this exhibition.

William Blake: Apprentice & Master is at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, until March 2015.