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A woman and a group of three men point angrily at a kneeling man.

At center-left, a man with white hair and a long beard, bare-chested with only a cloth around his waist and legs, kneels on the ground. He looks upward at a dark cloudy sky as tears fall from his eyes. His hands are outstretched down and in front of him, showing his arms and chest covered in blisters. At left, a woman crouching beside him looks up at him with an angry expression. At right, three bearded, robed men lined up in profile, all point with both hands at the man. In the distance at left, a stone structure rises and dark mountains are seen beyond.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.426
People
William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
Title
The Just Upright Man is Laughed to Scorn (The Book of Job)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Job Rebuked by his Friends
Series/Book Title: The Book of Job
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1821
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297946

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black ink and graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions
23.6 x 28.2 cm (9 5/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: GM

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
1943.426
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 (10), pl. 742
  • 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. 10, "The Just Upright Man is laughed to scorn"

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