Illustration by William Blake inspired by lines from Shakespeare's Macbeth (act 1, scene 7), in which the Macbeth imagines the aftermath of his intended murder of King Duncan: "And pity, like a naked new-born babe, striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, horsd upon the sightless couriers of the air, shall blow the horrid deed in every eye".

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ca. 1825


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