God Judging Adam
William Blake
ca. 1795
Medium
Relief etching, printed in color and finished with pen and ink and watercolor
Dimensions
sheet: 16 3/4 x 20 3/4in. (42.5 x 52.7cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1916
Accession Number
16.38
Tags
HorsesAdamChariotsGod the Father
About the Artist
William Blake · 1757–1827
William Blake (1757–1827) stands as one of the most visionary and unconventional artists in British history, a poet-painter-printmaker whose mystical imagination and radical vision profoundly shaped the Romantic movement. Born in London's Soho district, Blake experienced visions from childhood—claiming to see angels in trees at age eight—and these spiritual encounters would guide his art throughou...