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William Blake · 1795

Nebuchadnezzar

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Blake's mad king of Babylon crawls on all fours beneath a rocky overhang, long golden beard sweeping the ground and nails grown like talons, in mottled earth tones and blue-green. Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Up to 16.8 × 12 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

16.8″12″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of Nebuchadnezzar

Nebuchadnezzar is a colour monotype print finished with ink and watercolour, made by Blake in 1795. It shows the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II in his madness, from the Book of Daniel. Impressions are in Tate Britain, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

William Blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself".

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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