Date: ca. 1819-1820

Dimensions: left image (Uriah): 5 7/8 x 4 13/16 in. (15 x 12.2 cm.) right image (Bathsheba): 6 11/16 x 4 1/8 in. (17 x 10.4 cm.) sheet: 8 x 12 13/16 in. (20.3 x 32.6 cm.)

Medium: pencil on wove paper

Credit Line: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

Object Number: 000.53

Label Text: Like Solomon (adjacent), this is another of Blake's "Visionary Heads." King David, desiring to marry the beautiful Bathsheba, sent her husband Uriah into a battle in which he was killed (see II Samuel 11-12).