Loading
Job’s Comforters: “And when they lifted up their eyes afar off and knew him not they lifted up their voice and wept”
William Blake1825
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Job’s Comforters: “And when they lifted up their eyes afar off and knew him not they lifted up their voice and wept”
- Creator: William Blake
- Date Created: 1825
- Subject Keywords: Bible, Job (Biblical), Old Testament, religions, religious art
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed along lower edge: “London. Published as the Act directs March 8: 1825 by William Blake N3 Fountain Court Strand”; inscribed, lower left corner: “Proof”
- Set or Series Title: Illustrations of the Book of Job
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2000
- Materials & Techniques: Engraving on India paper. Watermark: No watermark visible through lining
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: First published edition of about 150 with the word “proof”
- Dimensions: 1827
- Bibliography: Binyon 112; David Bindman, Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job (1987), pp. 69–70; Cormack p. 39
- Associated People: Created by William Blake (British (English), 1757-1827)
- Accession Number: 2000.15.1
Get the app
Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more
You are all set!
Your first Culture Weekly will arrive this week.