Satan Before the Throne of God
William Blake
1825
Medium
engraving on India paper
Dimensions
plate: 21.6 x 17.2 cm (8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 43.2 x 33 cm (17 x 13 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of W.G. Russell Allen
Accession Number
1941.1.227
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...