Job's Comforters
Maker
(artist)
1757-1827
(engraver)
1757-1827
1757-1827
(engraver)
1757-1827
Title
Job's Comforters
Date of Production
executed :
Medium
medium : material : ink & support : material : paper
Dimensions
Height: 21.8 cm
Width: 17 cm
Width: 17 cm
Accession Number
G.1951.XX.1.8
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
cat. no. 12
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : printed : upper right hand corner & recto : numbered : 7.
Inscription: inscription : printed : upper margin & recto : : What! shall we receive Good / at the hand of God [ampersand] shall we not also / receive Evil //
Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : And when they lifted up their eyes afar off [ampersand] knew him not / they lifted up their voice [ampersand] wept. [ampersand] they rent every Man his / mantle [ampersand] sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven / Ye have heard of the Patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord. / WBlake inven [ampersand] sculpt / Published as the Act directs March 8[colon] 1925. by William Blake N3 Fountain Court Strand //
Inscription: inscription : printed : upper margin & recto : : What! shall we receive Good / at the hand of God [ampersand] shall we not also / receive Evil //
Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : And when they lifted up their eyes afar off [ampersand] knew him not / they lifted up their voice [ampersand] wept. [ampersand] they rent every Man his / mantle [ampersand] sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven / Ye have heard of the Patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord. / WBlake inven [ampersand] sculpt / Published as the Act directs March 8[colon] 1925. by William Blake N3 Fountain Court Strand //
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