Title(s)

Job door Satan met zweren bedekt
A smote Job with sore Boils (title on object)
Job (series title)
The Book of Job (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

6/21

Object number

RP-P-1958-147-8

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Genummerd: 6. 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 219 mm × width 170 mm

What

• Job covered with sores (or boils) takes his abode on a dunghill (pile of ashes) and scrapes his body with a potsherd
• Job is smitten from head to foot with sores by Satan, or dragon-like monsters that blow poisonous smoke on Job

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