1943.423: And When they Lifted up Their Eyes (The Book of Job)
DrawingsAt right, a bearded man wearing only a cloth over his waist, sits on the ground beside a pillar with a mournful expression. The skin on his chest and legs is covered in sores, and a woman kneeling behind him looks on with a pitying expression. At left, three men dressed in robes approach the man, all raising their hands to the sky. In the distance we see a city of small stone buildings and the last rays of the sun setting behind a mountain.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.423
- People
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William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
- Title
- And When they Lifted up Their Eyes (The Book of Job)
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: Job's Comforters
Series/Book Title: The Book of Job - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1821
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297945
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor, black ink and graphite on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 23.8 x 28.5 cm (9 3/8 x 11 1/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Grenville Lindall Winthrop, 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
- 1943.423
- 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 (7), pl. 739
- 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. 7, "And when they lifted up their eyes"
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