Title(s)

Boodschapper vertelt Job dat zijn ossen gestolen zijn door de Sabeanen
And I only am escaped alone to tell thee (title on object)
Job (series title)
The Book of Job (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

4/21

Object number

RP-P-1958-147-6

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Genummerd: 4. Tekst in het Engels in de marges. Prent maakt deel uit van een album.

Artist

• print maker: William Blake (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: William Blake (mentioned on object)
• publisher: William Blake (mentioned on object)

Place

London

Dating

1825

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 218 mm × width 172 mm

What

• the first messenger reports the theft of Job's oxen and asses by the Sabeans

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1958

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Album met prenten door William Blake gebaseerd op het boek Job (RP-P-1958-147)

• William Blake 1757-1827 : the complete series of original engravings for The book of Job, John Linnell
• There was a man in the land of Uz : Williams Blake's illustrations to the book of Job, Meira Perry-Lehmann
• William Blake : the book of Job and Dante's inferno, Cheryl A. Brutvan