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Sketch of a Swordsman Standing Over His Defeated Opponent [recto]
William Blake · c. 1780/1785 · graphite
Public domain
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About this picture
Sketch of a Swordsman Standing Over His Defeated Opponent [recto] is a public-domain drawing by William Blake, dated c. 1780/1785. Graphite. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Sketch of a Swordsman Standing Over His Defeated Opponent [recto]” (c. 1780/1785) belongs with Blake’s printed visions. He usually etched the plate himself and often printed it in small numbers for his own books.
About the artist
William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet and printmaker. In his illuminated books he wrote the text and etched the pictures himself. The images are visions, not records of a place.
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