Watercolor, with pen, and black ink gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/16 × 12 1/2 inches (35.7 × 31.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on mount, upper center: "Joseph and Jezebel"; inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower right: "Gen. ch. 39th v. 17th & 18"; inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower center: "And she spake unto her lord according to these words, | saying, the Hebrew servant which thou hast brought unto"; in graphite, lower right, circled: "96"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4309
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
basket | grapes | rape | Potiphar's wife before her husband: she accuses Joseph of trying to violate her, using the cloak as evidence | Old Testament | linen | pyramids | robes | Egyptian | men | women | walls | doorway | husband | enslaved person | religious and mythological subject
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)
Publications:
Naomi Billingsley, The visionary art of William Blake: Christianity, Romanticism and the Pictorial Imagination, I.B. Tauris, London ; New York, p. 123, fig. 30, NJ18.B57 B55 2018 (LC) (YCBA)