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The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun
c. 1805
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and gray ink with watercolor over graphite
- Dimensions
- Overall: 40.8 x 33.7 cm (16 1/16 x 13 1/4 in.) support: 55.2 x 44.2 cm (21 3/4 x 17 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8999
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Blake. The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun. William Blake; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Blake,_The_Great_Red_Dragon_and_the_Woman_Clothed_with_the_Sun,_c._1805,_NGA_11502.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun — William Blake. c. 1805.
Medium: pen and gray ink with watercolor over graphite.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): Overall: 40.8 x 33.7 cm (16 1/16 x 13 1/4 in.) support: 55.2 x 44.2 cm (21 3/4 x 17 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8999. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.