Art, Symbol & Imagination
Bound figures among descending flames
Three bent bodies occupy a narrow field of streaked yellow, red and black beneath the lettering. Coiling forms wrap across the central figure while the others turn their faces and limbs away. Blake’s dense arrangement makes bodily restriction visible without assigning each figure an identity that the plate itself does not name.
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William Blake. "Bound figures among descending flames" [editorial title]. In The Book of Urizen, William Blake. undated edition. Source scan leaf 7. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/urizen-complete-07
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William Blake. Bound figures among descending flames. The Book of Urizen. Scan leaf 7. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/urizen-complete-07