Illustrations of the Book of Job
Invented & Engraved by William Blake 1825
Will be published approx. on 13. July 2026
Book
Hardback
80 pages
978-1-915815-32-3 (ISBN)
Description
William Blake's engraved illustrations of the Book of Job are masterpieces of intaglio art. Dated 1825 in the plate and published the following year, they were based on his watercolours of the same subject from 1806 (Morgan Library, New York) and 1821 (Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard). Unlike the watercolours, the prints have complex marginal decorations that comment upon the biblical text. They are among the most inspired and sublime artistic achievements of this visionary artist and poet of the British Romantic period.
This handsome volume reproduces the Royal Academy's copy of John Linnell's 1874 printing, which comprised 100 copies on India paper laid on unmarked heavy paper. Katharine Dell, Professor of Old Testament Literature and Theology at the University of Cambridge, introduces the biblical text, and Joseph Viscomi, Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-editor of the Blake Archive, gives an account of the creation of Blake's engravings. The 22 illustrations are reproduced at actual size from new photographs especially taken for this publication and are accompanied by a series of magnificent details of the prints.
This handsome volume reproduces the Royal Academy's copy of John Linnell's 1874 printing, which comprised 100 copies on India paper laid on unmarked heavy paper. Katharine Dell, Professor of Old Testament Literature and Theology at the University of Cambridge, introduces the biblical text, and Joseph Viscomi, Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-editor of the Blake Archive, gives an account of the creation of Blake's engravings. The 22 illustrations are reproduced at actual size from new photographs especially taken for this publication and are accompanied by a series of magnificent details of the prints.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Cloth
Dimensions
Height: 300 mm
Width: 245 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-915815-32-3 (9781915815323)
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Content
Early Days (1977), Field and Flow, the Drawing and the Photograph (1979), Night Flak (1981), Black and White ... or How to Paint with a Hammer (1982), Swedish Lapland (1986), Gronland (1988), Papua New Guinea (1991), Black and White ... and Very Grey Areas (1993), Marianne North, Olana, Hudson, New York (1995), Northeast Siberia (1995), Painting Is Not Flat Art (1995), Thoughts on Emil Nolde (1995), Siberia (1996), Thinking about Georgia O'Keeffe (2002), For Kehnet Nielsen - In Praise of Painting (2002), Talking Painting (2004), Light (2004), Black (2004), Kurt Kocherscheidt: Between the Wall and the Floor (2004), China (2004), Note (2005), Painting and Countenance (2005), White (2008), Wave and Other Sensations (2010), Morocco (2010), Notes II (2010), Kurt Kocherscheidt: The Sense of an Ending (2013), Painting on the Threshold, Richard Diebenkorn (2015), Wood, Paint and Recycling (2015), Same Old Story (2015), Bounce (2017), Visiting Joan Mitchell (2017), Time and Time Again (2018), Eye to Eye: Reflections on the Self-portrait and Helene Schjerfbeck (2018), Robert Smithson: Paterson (2019), Painting/Sculpture/Architecture (2019), Piero della Francesca (2019), To Begin (2019), Jukka Maekelae: Talking Away the Night (2022), Notes on 'Against Architecture' (2023), Colour Chart (2023), Monet: In Search of Lost Time (2024), Robert Rauschenberg and the Photograph (2024), ... And Now (2024), Cy Twombly: Ezra Pound (2024), And ... (2024), Pierre Bonnard (2024-25), The Mirror and the Sea (2025)EndnotesSelected PublicationsAcknowledgementsCredits