Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Flaxman, 1755–1826, British
Title:
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan
Date:
between 1783 and 1787
Materials & Techniques:
Gray ink with graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 x 21 7/8 inches (40.6 x 55.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.6168
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
angels | religious and mythological subject | cape | curtains
Currently On View:
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Exhibition History:
Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England (Yale University Art Gallery, 2025-03-28 - 2025-09-14)

The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)

The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)

William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06)

William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14)

The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art in the 1770s (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-09-12 - 1979-11-11)
Publications:
David Bindman, William Blake : His art and times, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 80-81, no. 18, NJ18 .B57 B524 (LC)+ Oversize YCBA

Nancy L. Pressly, The Fuseli circle in Rome : Early Romantic art of the 1770s, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp.130-1, no. 133, N6425 .N4 P73 (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 46, no. 34, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9563