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Illustrations of The Book of Job,
printed March 8, 1825
William Blake, 1757–1827; born and died London, England
x1941-127 a-u
Information
Title
Illustrations of The Book of Job
Dates
printed March 8, 1825
Maker
Medium
Engravings
Dimensions
album: 39.5 × 29.7 × 1.6 cm (15 9/16 × 11 11/16 × 5/8 in.)
sheet: 37.5 x 27.2 cm. (14 3/4 x 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1941-127 a-u
Place Made
Europe, England, London
Inscription
Inscribed in plate on title page, overall: [Hebrew letters] / ILLUSTRATIONS of / The / BOOK / of / JOB / Invented & Engraved / by William Blake / 1825
All plates numbered, upper right corner
All plates inscribed with scripture surrounded the image
All plates signed in plate
Each plate inscribed with publish date, artist, and location: Published as the Act directs March 8: 1825 by William Blake No 33 Fountain Court Strand
Reference Numbers
Bindman 625-646; Binyon 105-126; Russell 33 i-xxii
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- Archibald George Blomefield Russell, The Engravings of William Blake (London: G. Richards, Ltd., 1912)., no. 36
- Laurence Binyon, The Drawings and Engravings of William Blake (London: The Studio, Ltd., 1922).
- Laurence Binyon, The Engraved Designs of William Blake (London: E. Benn, Ltd., 1926)., no. 135 ii
- Laurence Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes, Illustrations of the book of Job by William Blake; being all the water-colour designs, pencil drawings and engravings reproduced in facsimile (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935).
- "Recent accessions", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 1, no. 1 (1942): p. 19.
- David Bindman, The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake (London: Thames and Hudson, 1978)., no. 645
