Blake's illustrations for the Book of Job / William Blake.
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TextPublisher: New York : Dover Publications, [1995]Description: iv, 60 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0486287653 (pbk.)
- Illustrations of the Book of Job
- 769.92 20
- N6797.B57 A4 1995
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Originally published: New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935.
'Among the works of Blake's last years, the 21 watercolors inspired by the Book of Job rank among his greatest achievements and include some of his best-known pictures. The illustrations, here reproduced from the set made for John Linnell, comprise a remarkable pictorial epic, embodying a new and imaginative interpretation of the great biblical book and its theme of unmerited suffering. The present volume reproduces in full color all 21 of these watercolors (slightly reduced in size), and a selection of 13 watercolors from other sets...'
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