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"The Death of the Virgin"

This work is linked to a quotation from the gospel of John, chapter 19 verse 27 (during the crucifixion):
"Then saith he to the disciple, “Behold thy mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home."

Its rainbow is painted in the correct, Newtonian order, suggesting that it was painted before Blake switched to inverted rainbows in about 1803.