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Job's Evil Dreams

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

(engraver)
1757-1827

Title

Job's Evil Dreams

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.7 cm
Width: 17 cm

Accession Number

G.1951.XX.1.12

Mode of Acquisition

Jungawalla, gift, 1951

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords









Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Bicentenary exhibition of works by William Blake (1757-1827), The Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 01/11/1957-01/12/1957

Literature

Bicentenary exhibition of works by William Blake (1757-1827), Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 1957
cat. no. 12

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper right hand corner & recto : numbered : 11.

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me [ampersand] affrightest me / with Visions / Why do you persecute me as God [ampersand] are not satisfied with my flesh. Oh that my words / were printed in a Book that they were graven with an iron pen [ampersand] lead in the rock for ever/ For I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand in the latter days upon / the Earth [ampersand] after my skin destroy thou This body yet in my flesh shall I see God / Whom I shall see for Myself and mine eyes shall behold [ampersand] not Another tho consumed be my wrought image / Who opposeth [ampersand] exalteth himself also all that his called God or his Worshipped / London. Published as the Act directs March 8[ampersand] 1825 by Willm Blake No3 Fountain Court Strand //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower left hand corner & recto : : WBlake invenit [ampersand] sculp //

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