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Five figures kneeling on the ground looking up at a scene in a cloud above them

At lower center, a bearded man and a woman at left sit on the ground looking up in surprise. Beside him at center right, a robed man kneels looking at him and raises his hand, gesturing at a cloud directly above them, as two other robed men kneel looking up at it. In the cloud is a scene in which a figure at left with a long flowing beard stands with light radiating out from him. He looks at a man at right who lies in a bed with an astonished expression, his hair standing straight up. The margins around this image show text from the biblical Book of Job, decorated with illustrations of a forest with tangled branches.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M10456
People
William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
Title
"Then a spirit passed before my face,"
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Book of Job
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th-19th century
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/257707

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii, proof
Standard Reference Number
Binyon 114

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
M10456
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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