William Blake

The Book of Job: Pl. 14, When the morning Stars sang together, and all the / Sons of God shouted for joy

The Book of Job: Pl. 14, When the morning Stars sang together, and all the / Sons of God shouted for joy https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.260.o

Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve

Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/archangel-raphael-with-adam-and-eve-1808

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Lucia Carrying Dante in his Sleep (from Dante's "Divine Comedy") https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/297683

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

"And I only am escaped to tell thee," https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/257738

The Book of Job

The Book of Job https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.260

Satan the Accuser is cast out of Job's heaven, and with him fall the errors of Job and his wife. They fall into the flames of annihilation-not of everlasting torture, for Blake did not believe in such a hell. Error is recognized is Error destroyed. God is again seated firmly on his throne; he still holds his book, for Law is essential to life; but his halo now contains figures of love and pity, whose attitudes are repeated by the two attendant angels. The fall of Satan has opened a gulf between Job and his friends. In the margins, the flames consume the material creation (as in Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 14).

Thou hast fulfilled the Judgment of the Wicked https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46416/

The Book of Job: Pl. 3, Thy Sons and thy Daughters were eating and drinking Wine in their / eldest Brothers house

The Book of Job: Pl. 3, Thy Sons and thy Daughters were eating and drinking Wine in their / eldest Brothers house https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.260.d

Illustration to Dante's Divine Comedy, Hell

Illustration to Dante's Divine Comedy, Hell https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/illustration-to-dante-s-divine-comedy-hell-4

Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew 1940

Job, his Wife and his Friends: The Complaint of Job. Verso: Job’s Wife and Eight Other Sketches http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-job-his-wife-and-his-friends-the-complaint-of-job-verso-jobs-wife-and-eight-other-n05200

Bequeathed by Ian L. Phillips 1986

Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-moses-indignant-at-the-golden-calf-t04134

In the whirlwind, God descends below the clouds into this world; now he has returned to heaven and brought man with him, as indicated by the cloud on which the Deity stands: God Appears & God is Light To those poor Souls who dwell in Night But does a Human Form Display To those who Dwell in Realms of Day (The last four lines of Blake's Auguries of Innocence) The friends are still in the night, and the light to them is intolerable; but Job and his wife face God and know him for a comrade, in whose image they were made: "we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as He is." The angel in the margin below is the Comforter, who is the Spirit of Truth. Her texts (all from the Gospel of Saint John) assert the identity of the Son with the Father, who loves all his children equally, unprejudiced by their virtues or vices. Two of the texts appear in books; the most important is on a scroll. Scroll and books are now in harmony.

I have heard thee with the hearing of the Ear but now my Eye seeth thee https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46432/

The Soldiers Casting Lots for Christ's Garments

The Soldiers Casting Lots for Christ's Garments https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/the-soldiers-casting-lots-for-christ-s-garments-1800

Purchased with the assistance of a special grant from the National Gallery and donations from the Art Fund, Lord Duveen and others, and presented through the the Art Fund 1919

Behemoth and Leviathan http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-behemoth-and-leviathan-a00026

The Casting of the Rebel Angels into Hell

The Casting of the Rebel Angels into Hell https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/the-casting-of-the-rebel-angels-into-hell-1808

The Lovers Whirlwind

The Lovers Whirlwind https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/the-lovers-whirlwind-1827

The Ghost of a Flea

The Ghost of a Flea https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/the-ghost-of-a-flea-1820

Andrew, Simon Peter Searching for Christ

Andrew, Simon Peter Searching for Christ https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/andrew-simon-peter-searching-for-christ-1819

Presented by Herbert Linnell 1924

‘For him Our Yearly Wakes and Feasts We Hold’ http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-for-him-our-yearly-wakes-and-feasts-we-hold-a00123

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Dante, Virgil and Cato (from Dante's "Divine Comedy") https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/297580

The Book of Job: Pl. 19, Every one also gave him a piece of Money

The Book of Job: Pl. 19, Every one also gave him a piece of Money https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.303.20

Presented by the executors of W. Graham Robertson through the Art Fund 1949

The Agony in the Garden http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-the-agony-in-the-garden-n05894

Los

Los https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/los-1820

The Book of Job: No. 7, And When they had lifted up their eyes afar off and knew him not, they lifted up their voices and wept

The Book of Job: No. 7, And When they had lifted up their eyes afar off and knew him not, they lifted up their voices and wept https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.572

In plate one, Job and his family are still in the pastoral state of Innocence and shown at their evening prayers. Job is basically a good man, although he never recognized the true God. A Gothic church to the left represents his spiritual wealth; to the right, the flocks and barns represent his material wealth. Job fears God instead of loving him as a friend and deepest of all is his secret pride which must be humbled.

Thus did Job continually https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46430/

The Book of Job: Pl. 7, And when they had lifted up their eyes

The Book of Job: Pl. 7, And when they had lifted up their eyes https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.396

Two messengers arrive left feet first to announce the disasters. For Blake, the right hand and foot symbolized the spiritual; the left evoked the material. Job and his wife are seated beneath a pair of heavy stone crosses. Above them is a tree with scant foliage and no fruit. To the left, the Gothic church appears for the last time in the series. The news strikes Job like the thunderbolt depicted in the margins. Satan penetrates even deeper into Job's soul; he surmounts the globe and moves inward with his sword in his left hand. On the upper corners of the composition lie the forms of dead angels-the innocent joys or spiritual blessings, which will be revived later.

And I only am escaped alone to tell thee. https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46418/

A-frame cottage at R next to winding river at center; high bank to L of river with a tree; heavy foliage behind cottage

Colinet: Unhappy Hour https://collections.artsmia.org/art/122050/

Purchased with the assistance of a special grant from the National Gallery and donations from the Art Fund, Lord Duveen and others, and presented through the the Art Fund 1919

Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-beatrice-addressing-dante-from-the-car-n03369

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

"Then went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord," https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/257763

Los Entering the Grave

Los Entering the Grave https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/los-entering-the-grave-1820