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Titlepage
1823-1826; published 1826
from Illustrations of The Book of Job

Medium
engraving on chine collé

Measurements
19.0 × 14.6 cm (image) 21.3 × 16.4 cm (plate) 38.5 × 26.9 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bindman 1978, 625; Essick Job A; Butlin & Gott 49a

Edition
one of 150 sets on Whatman Turkey Mill paper (from the first edition of 215 marked 'Proof')

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) u.l.-l.c.: (Hebraic script) / ILLUSTRATIONS of / The / BOOK / of / JOB / Invented & Engraved / by William Blake / 1825
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: London Published as the Act directs March 8: 1825 by William Blake No (o in superscript) 3 Fountain Court Strand

Accession Number
1058.1-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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