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ENGRAVED DESIGNS OF WILLIAM BLAKE
First State : Before imprint and date.
Second State : Before additional work in upper left corner and
additional flames in marginal design. With Blake's imprint
and date.
Third State : As published,
109. Ulustration IV. “ And I alone am escaped to tell thee."
Job and his wife sitting under their fig tree hear the news of the
calamity fallen on their children from a messenger. Asecond messenger
is seen running in the distance ; and beyond him is a Gothic church.
Above the church is a hill, down the slope of which runs a third
messenger. In the upper margin is a small winged figure of Satan.
7f X 5! in.
First State : Before imprint and date.
Second State : With Blake's imprint and date. More work on
the clouds.
110. Illustration V. “ Then went Satan forth from the presence
OF THE LORD.”
Job shares his last meal with a beggar, even while Satan prepares
to pour out the vial of destruction on his head. In the background
the Gothic church has been replaced by a Druid altar, Blake's symbol
for Natural Religion, (It is implied that Job's action is done from a
wrong motive.)
7§X 5! in.
See reproduction, Plate 19.
First State : Before imprint and date. In the upper margin,
below Behold he is in thy hand are flames.
Second State : With Blake's imprint and date. There are marks
of erasure below Behold, etc., where the flames have been
removed.
Third State : As published.
In the pencil study in the Riches collection the head of the Deity
is turned right instead of left.
111. Illustration VI. “ And smote Job with sore Boils from the
SOLE OF HIS FOOT TO THE CROWN OF HIS HEAD."
Wicksteed quotes, “ Every boil upon my body is a separate and
deadly sin," Jerusalem, p. 21,1. 4, in illustration of Blake's conception
of Job's affliction as spiritual rather than physical.
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First State : Before imprint and date.
Second State : Before additional work in upper left corner and
additional flames in marginal design. With Blake's imprint
and date.
Third State : As published,
109. Ulustration IV. “ And I alone am escaped to tell thee."
Job and his wife sitting under their fig tree hear the news of the
calamity fallen on their children from a messenger. Asecond messenger
is seen running in the distance ; and beyond him is a Gothic church.
Above the church is a hill, down the slope of which runs a third
messenger. In the upper margin is a small winged figure of Satan.
7f X 5! in.
First State : Before imprint and date.
Second State : With Blake's imprint and date. More work on
the clouds.
110. Illustration V. “ Then went Satan forth from the presence
OF THE LORD.”
Job shares his last meal with a beggar, even while Satan prepares
to pour out the vial of destruction on his head. In the background
the Gothic church has been replaced by a Druid altar, Blake's symbol
for Natural Religion, (It is implied that Job's action is done from a
wrong motive.)
7§X 5! in.
See reproduction, Plate 19.
First State : Before imprint and date. In the upper margin,
below Behold he is in thy hand are flames.
Second State : With Blake's imprint and date. There are marks
of erasure below Behold, etc., where the flames have been
removed.
Third State : As published.
In the pencil study in the Riches collection the head of the Deity
is turned right instead of left.
111. Illustration VI. “ And smote Job with sore Boils from the
SOLE OF HIS FOOT TO THE CROWN OF HIS HEAD."
Wicksteed quotes, “ Every boil upon my body is a separate and
deadly sin," Jerusalem, p. 21,1. 4, in illustration of Blake's conception
of Job's affliction as spiritual rather than physical.
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