- Title:
- Job's Evil Dreams
- Additional Title(s):
- 'With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me', Plate 11
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1825
- Materials & Techniques:
- Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 7/8 × 11 inches (37.8 × 27.9 cm), Plate: 8 1/2 × 6 3/4 inches (21.6 × 17.1 cm), Image: 8 1/8 × 5 7/8 inches (20.6 × 14.9 cm), Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: "12"
Lettered inside image, upper right: "11"; upper center, from left to right: "My bones are pierced in me in the | night season & my sinews | take no rest | The triumphing of the wicked | is short. the joy of the hypocrite is | but for a moment | Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of Light & his Ministers into Ministers of Righteousness | My skin is black upon me | & my bones are burned | with heat"; lower center: "With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me & affrightest me | with Visions | Why do you persecute me as God & are not satisfied with my flesh. Oh that my words | were printed in a Book that they were graven with an iron pen & lead in the rock for ever | For I know that my Redeemer liveth & that he shall stand in the latter days upon | the Earth & after my skin destroy thou This body yet in my flesh shall I see God | whom I shall see for Myself and mine eyes shall behold & not Another tho consumed be my wrought Image | Who opposeth & exalteth himself above all that is called God or is Worshipped | WBlake invenit & sculp"; lower center: "London. Published as the Act directs March 8:1825 by Willm Blake No 3 Fountain Court Strand"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1513
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British, Job's Evil Dreams, 1825
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