The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in the Sun (alternately known as The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in the Rays of the Sun) is a watercolor painting by the English poet and painter William Blake. Painted between 1806 and 1809, it can now be seen in the Brooklyn Museum in New York City.
It was commissioned as part of a series of watercolors depicting the Great Red Dragon, who is Satan in the Bible. In this painting, the Dragon...
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The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in the Sun (alternately known as The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in the Rays of the Sun) is a watercolor painting by the English poet and painter William Blake. Painted between 1806 and 1809, it can now be seen in the Brooklyn Museum in New York City.
It was commissioned as part of a series of watercolors depicting the Great Red Dragon, who is Satan in the Bible. In this painting, the Dragon is seen about to devour the pregnant woman who symbolises the Church. This subject was taken from Revelation chapter 12, verses 1 to 4:
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the...
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