Pity (c. 1795) is a colour print on paper, finished in ink and watercolour, by the English artist and poet William Blake, one of the group known as the "Large Colour Prints". Along with his other works of this period, it was influenced by the Bible, Milton, and Shakespeare. The work is unusual, as it is a literal illustration of a double simile from Macbeth, found in the lines: And pity, like a naked new-born babe,Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'dUpon the sightless couriers of the air.- Macbeth (1.7.21–23)