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William Blake
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English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827. // #artbot made thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
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Dante Striking against Bocca Degli Abati http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-dante-striking-against-bocca-degli-abati-a00011
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
January 18, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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Sketch for ‘The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne’. Verso: Standing Figure with Arms at his Side http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-sketch-for-the-four-and-twenty-elders-casting-their-crowns-before-the-divine-throne-a00033
Presented by Mrs John Richmond 1922
January 18, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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The Book of Job: Pl. 11, With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me and affrightest me / with Visions https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.260.l
The Book of Job: Pl. 11, With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me and affrightest me / with Visions
January 17, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Behold Now Behemoth which I Made with Thee, from Illustrations of the Book of Job https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/158157
Behold Now Behemoth which I Made with Thee, from Illustrations of the Book of Job
January 17, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Thenot and Colinet at Supper http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-thenot-and-colinet-at-supper-t02129
Presented by British Museum Publications Ltd 1977
January 17, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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The Book of Job: Pl. 11, With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me and affrightest me / with Visions https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.303.12
The Book of Job: Pl. 11, With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me and affrightest me / with Visions
January 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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The Vision of Christ http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-the-vision-of-christ-a00028
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
January 16, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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The Book of Job: Pl. 6, And smote Job with sore Boils / from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.260.g
The Book of Job: Pl. 6, And smote Job with sore Boils / from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head
January 16, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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Thenot Remonstrates with Colinet http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-thenot-remonstrates-with-colinet-t02116
Presented by British Museum Publications Ltd 1977
January 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves ("Lord Remember Me") https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/297820
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
January 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Job’s Sacrifice http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-jobs-sacrifice-a00029
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
January 15, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-the-body-of-abel-found-by-adam-and-eve-n05888
Bequeathed by W. Graham Robertson 1949
January 14, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Frontispiece: Thenot and Colinet http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-frontispiece-thenot-and-colinet-a00111
Presented by Herbert Linnell 1924
January 14, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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The House of Death http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-the-house-of-death-n05192
Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew 1940
January 14, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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So the Lord Blessed the Latter End of Job More than the Beginning, from Illustrations of the Book of Job https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/158163
So the Lord Blessed the Latter End of Job More than the Beginning, from Illustrations of the Book of Job
January 13, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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The Crucifixion: ‘Behold Thy Mother’ http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-the-crucifixion-behold-thy-mother-n05895
Presented by the executors of W. Graham Robertson through the Art Fund 1949
January 13, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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The Complaint of the Giant Nimrod (from Dante's "Divine Comedy"); verso: slight black chalk sketch for recto https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/297947
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
January 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Christ Appearing to His Disciples After the Resurrection https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/christ-appearing-to-his-disciples-after-the-resurrection
Christ Appearing to His Disciples After the Resurrection
January 12, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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Behold now Behemoth which I made with thee https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46421/
Here, God explains the mystery of the incessant warfare in the human world. He reaches down through the cloud-barrier with his left hand to indicate Behemoth and Leviathan. These two creatures exist in man himself; God proclaims to Job "Behold now Behemoth which I made with thee." (Job xl: 15-24; lxi: 1-34). The cloud-barrier of Job's world includes the sphere in which they exist; it is a picture of the subconscious, the unredeemed portion of psyche, which the bulrushes identify as Egypt-the unredeemed portion of mankind. These are the terrible forces within man, against which he seems helpless: "the War by Sea enormous and the War by Land astounding, erecting pillars in the deepest Hell to reach the heavenly arches" (Blake, Jerusalem, 91: 39-42). They also function as a means of God's providence. Behemoth is "the chief ways of God": warfare of the spirit is one of the chief joys of Eternity, though when materialized on earth it is rendered deadly (Milton 34: 50-52; 35: 2-3). Leviathan is King over all the Children of Pride-that is, over all unredeemed mankind. His name means "coiled," and therefore he is depicted as having a huge spiral, representing the everlasting repetitions in the round of nature. At the upper corners, angels write the laws of the universe; at the lower corners are the eagles which Urizen sends forth in his work of creation (The Four Zoas ii: 150). Below are the emptied shells of the mortal bodies which are grown by man's spirit and then abandoned on the margin of the Sea of Time and Space.
January 12, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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The Book of Job: Pl. 9, Then a Spirit passed before my face / the hair of my flesh stood up https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.260.j
The Book of Job: Pl. 9, Then a Spirit passed before my face / the hair of my flesh stood up
January 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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The Book of Job: Pl. 8, Let the Day perish wherein I was Born https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.303.9
The Book of Job: Pl. 8, Let the Day perish wherein I was Born
January 11, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Charon and the Condemned Souls (from Dante's "Divine Comedy") https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/297457
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
January 11, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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Naomi entreating Ruth and Orpah to return to the land of Moab https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/naomi-entreating-ruth-and-orpah-to-return-to-the-land-of-moab-1795
Naomi entreating Ruth and Orpah to return to the land of Moab
January 10, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Dante and Virgil at the Gates of Hell https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/dante-and-virgil-at-the-gates-of-hell
Dante and Virgil at the Gates of Hell
January 10, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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The parable of the wise and foolish virgins https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/the-parable-of-the-wise-and-foolish-virgins-1822
The parable of the wise and foolish virgins
January 10, 2026 at 9:27 AM