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CATALOGUE OF BLAKE’S ENGRAVED DESIGNS
all things ; therefore he considers Job wrong in ** fighting against the
stars/’ but ** to Job the stars are light which penetrate even the darkest
night.” Mr. Wicksteed's interpretation is different. He quotes
from The Four Zoas :
Thus were the stars of heaven created like a golden chain
To bind the Body of Man to heaven from falling into the abyss.
His explanation of the symbolism of both main and marginal
design is too elaborate to be condensed here ; but the above quoted
lines provide a valuable clue.
7IX5I in.
See reproduction, Plate 25.
First State : Before imprint and date.
Second State : With Blake's imprint and date. There is added
work on the dress of the friends and of Job's wife.
118. Illustration XIII. ** Then the Lord answered Job out of the
WHIRLWIND.”
Job ** sees in Nature's endless round the vision of his own Divine
humanity exalted and transfigured.” (Wicksteed.) In the lower
margin Mr. Damon sees ** the forests of error ” blown flat by the
whirlwind.
7fX 5! in.
See reproduction, Plate 26.
First State : Before imprint and date. The lines of the whirlwind
are continued into the upper margin.
Second State : With Blake's imprint and date. The lines of the
whirlwind are erased from the margin. There is now a patch
of shading in the root of the tree in the lower margin.
119* Illustration XIV. “ When the morning Stars sang together
AND ALL THE SONS OF GOD SHOUTED FOR JOY.”
A vision of the unity of the Universe. Clouds divide the design
into four spaces. Below, Job and his wife and three friends are in the
world of the senses ; above them is the world of Eternity, with God,
the Divine Humanity, in the centre, uniting all. Under his extended
arms are, left, Apollo, or Intellect, in the chariot of the sun (Damon),
or ** the sun of the mind, driving the horses of instruction ” (Wick-
steed); at the right (the world of emotion) “ Diana guiding the serpents
of Nature in the night of the passions ” (Damon), or ** the moon of
poetic, or woman's love,” guiding ** the serpents of corporeal desires ”
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all things ; therefore he considers Job wrong in ** fighting against the
stars/’ but ** to Job the stars are light which penetrate even the darkest
night.” Mr. Wicksteed's interpretation is different. He quotes
from The Four Zoas :
Thus were the stars of heaven created like a golden chain
To bind the Body of Man to heaven from falling into the abyss.
His explanation of the symbolism of both main and marginal
design is too elaborate to be condensed here ; but the above quoted
lines provide a valuable clue.
7IX5I in.
See reproduction, Plate 25.
First State : Before imprint and date.
Second State : With Blake's imprint and date. There is added
work on the dress of the friends and of Job's wife.
118. Illustration XIII. ** Then the Lord answered Job out of the
WHIRLWIND.”
Job ** sees in Nature's endless round the vision of his own Divine
humanity exalted and transfigured.” (Wicksteed.) In the lower
margin Mr. Damon sees ** the forests of error ” blown flat by the
whirlwind.
7fX 5! in.
See reproduction, Plate 26.
First State : Before imprint and date. The lines of the whirlwind
are continued into the upper margin.
Second State : With Blake's imprint and date. The lines of the
whirlwind are erased from the margin. There is now a patch
of shading in the root of the tree in the lower margin.
119* Illustration XIV. “ When the morning Stars sang together
AND ALL THE SONS OF GOD SHOUTED FOR JOY.”
A vision of the unity of the Universe. Clouds divide the design
into four spaces. Below, Job and his wife and three friends are in the
world of the senses ; above them is the world of Eternity, with God,
the Divine Humanity, in the centre, uniting all. Under his extended
arms are, left, Apollo, or Intellect, in the chariot of the sun (Damon),
or ** the sun of the mind, driving the horses of instruction ” (Wick-
steed); at the right (the world of emotion) “ Diana guiding the serpents
of Nature in the night of the passions ” (Damon), or ** the moon of
poetic, or woman's love,” guiding ** the serpents of corporeal desires ”
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