Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British, Job's Despair
- Title:
- Job's Despair
- Additional Title(s):
- 'Let the Day perish wherein I was Born', Plate 8
- Part Of:
- Materials & Techniques:
- Line engraving
- Dimensions:
- Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper right: "8"; upper center: "Lo let that night be solitary | & let no joyful voice come therein"; lower center: "Let the Day perish wherein I was Born | And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days & seven | nights & none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief | was very great"; lower right: "WBlake inv & sculp"; lower center: "London Publish'd as the Act directs March 8:1825 by Willm Blake No 3 Fountain Court Strand"; lower right: "Proof"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2005.16.9
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:62912
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