ANGEL OF REVELATION

Description

Limited edition of 82 copies
11 colors on cream paper
50x70cm

The second poster reinterprets “Angel of Revelation”, a watercolor realized at the beginning of 1800 by Blake.
This work comes from a series of eighty biblical watercolors that Blake made for Thomas Butts, an important patron. He found the subject in chapter 10 of the book of Revelation and describes both the author and his vision. A diminutive Saint John, pen in hand, on the island of Patmos, gazes at a “mighty angel . . . clothed with a cloud . . . a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire.”