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The Shadow of Death is a religious painting by William Holman Hunt on which he worked from 1870 to 1873 during his second trip to the Holy Land. It depicts Jesus as a young man prior to his ministry working as a carpenter. He is shown stretching his arms after sawing wood. The shadow of his outstretched arms falls on a wooden spar on which carpentry tools hang creating a shadow of death prefiguring the crucifixion.
