The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun

The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun from around 1805 is part of Blake's series illustrating the Book of Revelation, among the most powerful visionary images in Western art. Blake's apocalyptic watercolors transform biblical text into images of terrifying sublimity. Blake created the work using his distinctive tempera or watercolor technique, combined with his personal mythological vision that placed him outside the mainstream of British art while anticipating later Symbolist

Blake's distinctive technique combines precise linear drawing with transparent watercolor washes, the muscular dragon figure rendered with anatomical intensity against the cosmic backdrop.