- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.411
- People
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William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
- Title
- Then Went Satan Forth from the Presence of the Lord (The Book of Job)
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: Satan Going Forth from the Presence of the Lord, and Job's Charity
Series/Book Title: The Book of Job - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1821
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297823
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 27.1 × 22.7 cm (10 11/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: GM
- Provenance
- Grenville Lindall Winthop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.411
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Agnes Mongan, "Drawings and Watercolours" [Winthrop collection], Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1943), vol. X, no. 2, pp. 53-57, repr. in b/w p. 56
Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 16
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 (5), pl. 737
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. 5, "Then went Satan forth from the presence ..."
- Exhibition History
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Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1944 - 06/30/1944
- Related Works
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