Isaiah Walking Naked Through Jerusalem (Original)

Artist: Don Lawrence
Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Board
Size: 16" x 7" (400mm x 175mm)
Date: 1964
Code: LawrenceIsaiahLL

This is the unique original Pen & Ink Wash by Don Lawrence.

This is the original artwork for illustration that appeared on p8 of issue no 9 (2 May 1964) of The Bible Story, depicting Isaiah walking" naked" in the streets of Jerusalem.

20:1 The Lord revealed the following message during the year in which King Sargon of Assyria sent his commanding general to Ashdod, and he fought against it and captured it.

20:2 At that time the Lord announced through Isaiah son of Amoz: “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and take your sandals off your feet.” He did as instructed and walked around in undergarments and barefoot.

20:3 Later the Lord explained, “In the same way that my servant Isaiah has walked around in undergarments and barefoot for the past three years, as an object lesson and omen pertaining to Egypt and Cush,

20:4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, both young and old. They will be in undergarments and barefoot, with the buttocks exposed; the Egyptians will be publicly humiliated.

20:5 Those who put their hope in Cush and took pride in Egypt will be afraid and embarrassed.

20:6 At that time those who live on this coast will say, Look what has happened to our source of hope to whom we fled for help, expecting to be rescued from the King of Assyria! How can we escape now?'.

• Artist Biography
  Donald Southam Lawrence (17 November 1928 - 29 December 2003; London, UK)
  Born in East Sheen, London, on 17 November 1928, Don Lawrence used his gratuity from National Service to attend Borough Polytechnic to study art. He became a regular contributor to the superheroic adventures of Marvelman in 1954 before producing the Western strips Wells Fargo and Pony Express for Zip and Swift He found work with Fleetway, drawing another Western, Billy the Kid, before finding his niche drawing historical strips Karl the Viking, Olac the Gladiator and Maroc the Mighty.
  
  Fully colour strips for Lion Annual and Bible Story, including the life of Herod the Great in the latter, led to him being offered The Trigan Empire, which debuted in the short-lived Ranger in September 1965 before finding a regular home in the educational weekly Look and Learn from June 1966. Lawrence was to draw this iconic strip for 11 years in all.
  
  After 11 years on Trigan Empire, Lawrence helped create Storm, the story of a man catapulted into the distant future, for the Dutch weekly comic Eppo. Lawrence painted 22 volumes of Storm's adventures between 1976 and 1995. That year, Lawrence lost the sight in one eye and a final volume was completed with the assistance of Liam McCormack-Sharp in 2001. Lawrence was widely respected in continental Europe (he was made a Knight of the order of Oranje-Nassau by Queen Beatrix of Holland) and won many awards. He died on 29 December 2003, aged 75.