Canto XXII/4: Fighting Devils

Silkscreen proof approved by the artist and signed / initialled by him, taken from the original Talford Press edition of 185, printed on 100% rag, acid-free Inveresk (Somerset) paper

page size 39.5 x 31 cm

1979 – 1983

This image takes as its starting point not the commonly plundered Doré illustrations but Blake's eccentric version, developing the latter's naive comic-book aspect : SHOOOOM! is of course an inversion of the standard WOOOOSH!