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A robed figure with a long flowing beard makes a gesture of blessing over two kneeling figures.

At center left, a robed figure with white hair and a long white beard, barefoot and dressed in a white robe, stands surrounded by radiating light. He looks down at a man and woman who kneel before him, and he holds his hands above their heads as they gaze back at him. Behind the kneeling couple a group of three men crouch down, facing away and shielding their eyes from the light. Muted grey-blue mountains are seen in the distance.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.424
People
William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
Title
I Have Heard Thee (The Book of Job)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Vision of Christ
Series/Book Title: The Book of Job
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1821
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297594

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black ink and graphite on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
22.2 x 29.8 cm (8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Fleur-de-lis with shield

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
1943.424
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 (17), pl. 749
  • 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. 17, "I have heard thee with the hearing of the Ear"

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