A figure hovering in an archway, radiating light
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

At center, a male figure nude except for a loincloth floats above the ground in a stone archway of a darkened room, facing the viewer with outstretched arms. His eyes look upward and left as rays of bright light emanate from behind his head. Below, in the foreground at center, a figure lies face down on the ground. At left and at right we see other astonished faces of figures looking up at the man, some closing their eyes in the glare

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.405
People
William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
Title
The Resurrection
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1805
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297822

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black-gray ink and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
41.4 x 30.2 cm (16 5/16 x 11 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.405
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1981), no. 502, pl. 573
  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), cat. no. 21, repr. (color)
  • [reproduction only], Studies in Romanticism, (Winter 2005)., repr. on cover
  • Dan Piepenbring, "New Books", Harper's Magazine (December 2023), vol. 347, no. 2083, pp. 69-71, p. 71, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002

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