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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.411
People
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
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
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
  • watermark: GM
Provenance
Grenville Lindall Winthop, 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
1943.411
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

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

Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1944 - 06/30/1944

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