The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve

The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve from 1826 at the National Gallery is one of Blake's final works, created during the extraordinarily productive last years of his life. The subject of the first murder resonated with Blake's theology of innocence corrupted by experience. Blake's highly personal technique — combining watercolor, tempera, and sometimes relief etching — was inseparable from his visionary content; he worked outside the academic tradition, selling relatively little in his lifetim

The figures are rendered with the intense linearity of Blake's mature style, the dramatic discovery scene composed with the visionary clarity that characterizes his later works.