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William Blake
Job's Despair 1823-1826; published 1826
engraving on chine collé
20.0 × 15.1 cm (image) 21.9 × 16.9 cm (plate) 39.5 × 25.9 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920
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Job's Despair
1823-1826; published 1826
plate 8 from Illustrations of The Book of Job
Medium
engraving on chine collé
Measurements
20.0 × 15.1 cm (image) 21.9 × 16.9 cm (plate) 39.5 × 25.9 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bindman 1978, 633; Essick Job A8; Butlin & Gott 49i
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.: 8
printed in ink (in image) u.l.-l.r.: (various inscriptions)
printed in ink (in image, diagonally) l.r.: WBlake inv & sculp
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: London. Publish'd as the Act directs March 8: 1825 by Willm (m in superscript) Blake No (o in superscript) 3 Fountain Court Strand
printed in ink l.r.: Proof
Accession Number
1058.9-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Literary and Text Religion and Mythology
Subjects (specific)
grief illustrations (layout features) Job (Old Testament character) religious characters suffering text (layout feature)
Movements
Romanticism (modern European styles)