The Ancient of Days by William Blake

The poet and painter William Blake was disregarded as mad by his contemporaries, because of his views on religion and philosophy. He created his own mythology, presented in his 'prophetic books', containing 'The Four Zoas'. The Four Zoas are four beings that each represent their own aspects of the human psyche. This etching is of 'Urizen', the Zoa representing logic, reason and law.