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Job's Comforters

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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 //

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