Three young women sit around an elderly bearded man
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

At center, a white haired man with a flowing beard sits in a long robe, facing the viewer and gesturing with each arm extended outward. Three young women in robes sit around him, one leaning in against him at either side, and a third seen from behind, kneeling and facing him. Pairs of sheep recline on the floor in the foreground at lower left and lower right. Behind on the wall are three quickly sketched pictures on the wall at center, left, and right.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.428
People
William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
Title
There Were Not Found Women Fair (The Book of Job)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Job and his Daughters
Series/Book Title: The Book of Job
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1821
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297595

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black ink and graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions
19.4 x 26.5 cm (7 5/8 x 10 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.428
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, p. 202
  • Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1981), no. 551 (20), pl. 752
  • David Bindman, ed., William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job, The William Blake Trust (London, England, 1987), repr. ill. B on p. 3 of pl. 20, "There were not found Women fair as the ..."

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