The Day of Judgment
William Blake
1805
Medium
Pen and gray and black inks and watercolor, with scraping, over graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on tan board
Dimensions
27.4 × 22.2 cm (10 13/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
248697
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...