Newton (Blake)

Newton is a monotype by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake first completed in 1795,[1] but reworked and reprinted in 1805.

Isaac Newton is shown sitting naked and crouched on a rocky outcropping covered with algae, apparently at the bottom of the sea.

In his annotation to his own engraving of the classical character Laocoön, Blake wrote "Art is the Tree of Life.

The deistic view of God as a distant creator who played no role in daily affairs was anathema to Blake, who claimed to regularly experience visions of a spiritual nature.

Newton was incorporated into Blake's infernal trinity along with the philosophers Francis Bacon and John Locke.