A couple give an offering to a beggar, while in a cloud above them a figure falls from the side of a man surrounded by angels.
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At center below, a bearded man sits beside a woman. They give a loaf of bread to a beggar at right who is lead by a small dog on a leash. On either side of this group, angels hover, looking on with folded hands. Above, In a cloud of smoke and flame, a robed man with a flowing beard sits on a throne, holding a book. He is surrounded on either side by groups of angels and in front of him, a lone dark figure tumbles out of the cloud, directing the flames toward the head of the man seated below.

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

Recorded Ownership History
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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