Updated 23 January 2024
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<Illustration to the Book of Job>: When the Morning Stars Sang Together
Date | 1825 |
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Materials and Techniques | engraving |
Size(cm) | 19.1 x 15.0 (image); 20.7 x 16.4 (platemark) |
Standard ref. | Russel 33xiv; Bindman 639 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1989-0076 |
Provenance
Private coll., New York; Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London; Purchased by the NMWA, 1989.
Exhibition History
- 1990
- William Blake, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 22 September 1990 - 25 November 1990, cat. no. 90-o
- 1994
- Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijyutsukan shozo sakuhin ni yoru yoroppa bijyutsu eno shotai, Karatsu City Library, 12 November 1994 - 11 December 1994, cat. no. 24, repr.
- 2011
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Prints by William Blake, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 22 October 2011 - 29 January 2012
Bibliography
- 1910
- Wicksteed, J. Blake's Vision of the Book of Job. London, 1910, pp. 101-104, repr.
- 1926
- Binyon, L. The Engraved Designs of William Blake. London/New York, 1926, cat. nos. 105-126.
- 1935
- Binyon, L. ; Keynes, G.L. Illustrations to the Book of Job by William Blake. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935.
- 1966
- Damon, S. Foster. Blake's Job : William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job. Hanovaer, NH, 1966., pp. 38-39.
- 1971
- Keynes, G.L. “The History of Job Designs”. Blake Studies. 2nd ed., Oxford, 1971, pp.176-186.
- 1972
- Wright, Andrew. Blake's Job : A Commentary. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972.
- 1973
- Lindberg, Bo. William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job. Åbo, Åbo akademi, 1973.
- 1980
- Essick, R. N. William Blake Printmaker. Princeton, 1980 , pp. 234-249.
- 1982
- Raine, Kathleen. The Human Face of God: William Blake and the Book of Job. London, Thames and Hudson, 1982, “Plate 14”, pp. 222-226, repr.
- 1987
- Bindman, David., ed. William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job: the Engravings and Related Materials. London, William Blake Trust, 1987.
- 1989
- Narrative Image-book Illustration in 19th Century (exh. cat.). 15 June - 30 July 1989. [Tochigi], Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Tokyo, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 1989, pp. 117, 120-121, cat. no. 73-2, repr.
- 1992
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 23-24 (1988-89), 1992, Yukiyama, Koji. New Acquisitions 1988-89. pp. 30-31, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions 1988-89. pp. 86-94, repr.
- 1994
- Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijutsukan Shozo Sakuhin ni Yoru Europa Bijutsu e no Shotai (exh. cat.). Karatsu City Library; National Museum of Wetsern Art. Karatsu, Karatsu City Library, 1994, cat. no. 24, repr.