The Last Trumpet (recto); Two studies of a right eye, a profile of an open-mouthed young man, the head of an eagle, and the head of a lion (verso), ca. 1780–85, Pen and gummed carbon black ink and layered gray ink washes with graphite underdrawing; verso: black chalk, sheet: 8 1/16 x 8 3/8 in. (20.5 x 21.2 cm), Drawings, William Blake (British, London 1757–1827 London), In this dynamic working drawing Blake, Britain's great early Romantic poet/artist, presents the resurrection of believing souls at the last day. The image echoes lines from Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians (4:15–17): 'For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first
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