Tornado–Zeus Battling Typhon, from Erasmus Darwin's "The Botanic Garden"
August 1, 1795
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
image: 8 5/16 x 6 11/16 in. (21.1 x 17 cm) sheet: 9 15/16 x 7 5/16 in. (25.2 x 18.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
Accession Number
66.544.31
Tags
About the Artist
William Blake|Henry Fuseli|John Johnson|Erasmus Darwin · 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...