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The Wrath of Elilu

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

(engraver)
1757-1827

Title

The Wrath of Elilu

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.8 cm
Width: 16.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1951.XX.1.13

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








wrath

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper right hand corner & recto : numbered : 12.

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper left hand margin & recto : : For God speaketh once yea twice / [ampersand] Man perceiveth it not / In a Dream in a Vision of the Night / in deep Slumberings upon the bed / Then he openeth the ears of Men [ampersand] sealeth their instruction //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper right hand margin & recto : : That he may withdraw Man from his purpose / [ampersand] hide Pride from Man / If there be with him an Interpreter One among a Thousand / then he is gracious unto him / [ampersand] saith Deliver him from going down to the Pit / I have found a ransom. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper centre margin & recto : : For his eyes are upon / the ways of Man [ampersand] he observeth / all his goings //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : I am Young [ampersand] ye are very Old wherefor I was afraid / Lo all those things worketh God often times with Man to bring / back his Soul from mthe pit to be enlightened / with the light of all the living / Look upon the heavens [ampersand] behold the clouds / which are higher / than thou / If thou sinnest what / doest thou against him or if thou be / righteous what givest thou unto him / WBlake invenit [ampersand] sculp / London Published as the Act directs March 8[colon] 1825 by Willm Blake N3 Fountain Court Strand //

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