Christ descending into the Grave (Plate I). A radiant figure of Jesus Christ, holding two large keys, walks down a staircase into a sea of flames. Copperplate engraving by Louis Schiavonetti after an original drawing by William Blake from Robert Blair’s The Grave, T. Bensley for Rudolph Ackermann, 1813.

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