1943.412: Then a Spirit Passed Before My Face (The Book of Job)
DrawingsAt 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, raising his hand and gesturing at a cloud directly above them in a dark sky. Two men behind him 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.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.412
- People
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William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
- Title
- Then a Spirit Passed Before My Face (The Book of Job)
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: The Vision of Eliphaz
Series/Book Title: The Book of Job - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1821
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297852
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor, black ink and graphite on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 25 x 17.1 cm (9 13/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.412
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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 (9), pl. 741
- 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. 9, "Then a spirit passed before my face"
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