The Great Red Dragon Paintings are a series of watercolour paintings by the English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 William Blake

William Blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...

, painted between 1805 and 1810. It was during this period that Blake was commissioned to create over a hundred paintings intended to illustrate books of the Bible. These paintings depict 'The Great Red Dragon' in various scenes from the Book of Revelation

Book of Revelation

The Book of Revelation is the final book of the New Testament. The title came into usage from the first word of the book in Koine Greek: apokalupsis, meaning "unveiling" or "revelation"...

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The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun

In this painting, the Dragon is seen ready to devour the child of the pregnant woman as depicted in Revelation 12.
Height: 54.6 cm, Width: 43.2 cm

Housed at the Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is an encyclopedia art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum holds New York City's second largest art collection with roughly 1.5 million works....

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The Great Red Dragon and the Woman clothed with the Sun

This image is similar to The Great Red Dragon and the Woman clothed in Sun but shown from a different viewpoint.
Height: 40.8, Width: 33.7 cm

Housed at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C..

The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea

Height: 40.1 cm, Width: 35.6 cm

Housed at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C..

The Number of the Beast is 666

Height: 40.6 cm, Width: 33.0 cm

Housed at: the Rosenbach Museum & Library

Rosenbach Museum & Library

The Rosenbach Museum & Library is located within two 19th-century townhouses at 2008 and 2010 Delancey Place in Philadelphia. The historic houses contain the collections and treasures of Philip Rosenbach and his younger brother Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach...