June 12, 2020 • 5 mins
Listen, and to see the image fully here: http://www.blakearchive.org/images/but442.1.1.wc.300.jpg.
Some of William Blake’s best- known images are of Satan, and he uses the Bible to think with throughout his art. Here, one of Britain’s foremost Blake scholars introduces you to his little-known image of ‘Pestilence’ and his thinking on the book of Exodus.
To cite this podcast: Luisa Calè, Pestilence, Birkbeck Arts Weeks online 2020 /June 8.
William Blake, ‘Pestilence: The Death of the First-Born’, c. 1805, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’
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