Art, Symbol & Imagination
Urizen entangled in dark waters
The raised hands, streaming beard and bent legs of the white-haired figure are crossed by dark horizontal bands. In this impression the bands resemble water, making the body seem caught in the surrounding medium. The colouring belongs to this source copy, and the uncaptioned design does not establish a literal flood.
Read the source pageLoading your collection…
Citation
William Blake. "Urizen entangled in dark waters" [editorial title]. In The Book of Urizen, William Blake. undated edition. Source scan leaf 6. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/art-urizen-dark
Source details
Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
The narrative connection is interpretive. Copy-specific colouring matters, so readings of differently coloured impressions are not treated as exact descriptions of this scan.
Sources
From the book
The Book of UrizenWilliam BlakeUndated editionMore from this book
The illuminated title page of The Book of Urizen
The windswept prelude to The First Book of Urizen
Outstretched arms above Urizen’s opening chaptersRelated illustrations
Explore in the Codex
Entries that reference this illustration.
Cite this illustration
William Blake. Urizen entangled in dark waters. The Book of Urizen. Scan leaf 6. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/art-urizen-dark