Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, BritishPublished by John Linnell the Elder, 1792–1882, British/Scottish
Title:
Job and His Family Restored to Prosperity
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: "21"; upper center, from left to right: "Great & Marvellous are thy Works | Lord God Almighty | Just & True are thy Ways | O thou King of Saints"; lower center, from left to right: "So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job | more than the beginning | After this Job lived | an hundred & forty years | & saw his Sons & his | Sons Sons | In burnt Offerings for Sin | thou hast had no Pleasure | even four Generations | So Job died | being old | & full of days | WBlake inv & sculp"; lower center: "London Published as the Act directs March 8:1825 by William Blake 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