# Nebuchadnezzar [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BLAKE, William]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Copper engraving with pen and ink and watercolour, 446 x 620 mm ## Commentary Blake produced in the mid-1790s a series of large colour prints on themes of oppression, one of which is Nebuchadnezzar. This plate depicts the animal state to which man had been reduced after the Fall, so vividly personified in the crouching form and sullen stare of his Nebuchadnezzar. ## 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]()