# The Descent of Christ [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BLAKE, William]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Etching with pen, watercolour and gold, 219 x 159 mm ## Commentary In this early page of Jerusalem, the sleeping Albion is visited by Christ, who awakens his dormant desire for salvation. Though Albion is not yet conscious of Christ's sacrifice, its promise is foreshadowed by the new body that begins to emerge from his breast. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve Sleeping]() - [Albion, Symbolic Figure]() - [Christ as the Redeemer of Man]() - [Elisha in the Chamber on the Wall]() - [Elohim Creating Adam]() - [Hecate or the Three Fates]() - [Isaac Newton]() - [Job and his Daughters]() - [Job Confessing his Presumption to God who Answers from the Whirlwind]() - [Lear Grasping a Sword]() - [Los Entering the Grave]() - [Los]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()