Death on a Pale Horse | William Blake | 1800 18th Century Publish Date: July 28

Publish Date: July 28

Their interactions suggest a sense of camaraderie and ease within their natural surroundings

entwined with a serpent

Vegetation grows around and through the arches and columns

but was returned to Poland around 1956

Death on a Pale Horse | William Blake | 1800 18th Century Publish Date: July 28"Death on a Pale Horse," painted by William Blake around 1800, is a dramatic and powerful representation of one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as described in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. This painting captures the terrifying and inevitable force of death, which is depicted as an armored, kingly figure riding a pale horse, a symbol of death and pestilence. The rider, with a flowing beard and crowned head, wields a large sword,