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Five figures kneeling on the ground looking up at a scene in a cloud above them

At 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
William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
Title
Then a Spirit Passed Before My Face (The Book of Job)
Other Titles
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
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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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