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Job's Despair

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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 //

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