The Last Trumpet (recto); Two studies of a right eye, a profile of an open-mouthed young man, the head of an eagle, and the head of a lion (verso)
1780–85
Medium
Recto: pen and gummed carbon black ink and layered gray ink washes with graphite underdrawing and reductive techniques Verso: black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 8 1/16 x 8 3/8 in. (20.5 x 21.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Fletcher and Van Day Truex Funds, 2011
Accession Number
2011.448
Tags
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...