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A man sits, leaning his head back in sorrow while approaching figures gesture toward the sky.

At 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
William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
Title
And When they Lifted up Their Eyes (The Book of Job)
Other Titles
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
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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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