Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, BritishPublished by John Linnell the Elder, 1792–1882, British/Scottish
Title:
Job's Evil Dreams
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
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"; lower right: "Proof"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946