Job's Despair
Maker
(artist)
1757-1827
(engraver)
1757-1827
1757-1827
(engraver)
1757-1827
Title
Job's Despair
Date of Production
executed :
Medium
medium : material : ink & support : material : paper
Dimensions
Height: 21.7 cm
Width: 16.9 cm
Width: 16.9 cm
Accession Number
G.1951.XX.1.9
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 : 8.
Inscription: inscription : printed : upper centre margin & recto : : Lo let that night be solitary / [ampersand] let no joyful voice come therein //
Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : Let the Day perish wherein I was Born / And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days [ampersand] seven / nights [ampersand] none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief / was very great / London Publishd as the Act directs March 8[colon] 1825 by Willm Blake No3 Fountain Court Strand //
Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right hand corner & recto : : WBlake inv [ampersand] sculp //
Inscription: inscription : printed : upper centre margin & recto : : Lo let that night be solitary / [ampersand] let no joyful voice come therein //
Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : Let the Day perish wherein I was Born / And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days [ampersand] seven / nights [ampersand] none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief / was very great / London Publishd as the Act directs March 8[colon] 1825 by Willm Blake No3 Fountain Court Strand //
Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right hand corner & recto : : WBlake inv [ampersand] sculp //
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