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Job and his Family

Job and his Family
1823-1826; published 1826
plate 1 from Illustrations of The Book of Job

Medium
engraving on chine collé

Measurements
18.3 × 15.0 cm (image) 20.0 × 16.6 cm (plate) 38.8 × 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, 626; Essick Job A1; Butlin & Gott 49b

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.r.: 1
printed in ink (in image) u.l.-l.r.: (various inscriptions)
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: WBlake inv & sculp
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: London. Published as the Act directs. March 8: 1825. by Willm (m in superscript) Blake N 3 Fountain Court Strand
printed in ink l.r.: Proof

Accession Number
1058.2-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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