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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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Every one also gave him a piece of Money https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46456/
As Job lost virtue by giving to a beggar, he now gains it by receiving from his friends. This is true charity springing from personal sympathy. One woman even offers Job her gold earring (Job xlii: II). The heavy cross over Job's head is now broken. Prosperity is shown by the fig tree bearing fruit and the standing wheat. Angels crowd round the margins of the designs with palms of victory, for Job has conquered his pride at last; and below are the roses and lilies of material and spiritual beauty. "The thankful recipient bears a plentiful harvest." (51st proverb of Hell.) The pioneering Blake scholar Joseph Wicksteed indicates that this illustration is a tender and passionate acknowledgment of his indebtedness to his pupil and patron John Linnell and his wife.
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The Lord Answering Job out of the Whirlwind http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-the-lord-answering-job-out-of-the-whirlwind-a00024
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
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Christ in the Carpenter’s Shop: The Humility of the Saviour http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-christ-in-the-carpenters-shop-the-humility-of-the-saviour-n05193
Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew 1940
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Job Rebuked by his Friends http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-job-rebuked-by-his-friends-a00021
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
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Illustration to Book of Job https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/illustration-to-book-of-job
Illustration to Book of Job
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Illustration to Milton`s On the Morning of Christ`s Nativity https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/illustration-to-milton-s-on-the-morning-of-christ-s-nativity-1809
Illustration to Milton`s On the Morning of Christ`s Nativity
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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First Book of Urizen pl. 15 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-first-book-of-urizen-pl-15-t12997
Purchased with funds provided by the Art Fund, Tate Members, Tate Patrons, Tate Fund and individual donors 2009
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Antaeus setting down Dante and Virgil in the last circle of hell https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/antaeus-setting-down-dante-and-virgil-in-the-last-circle-of-hell-1827
Antaeus setting down Dante and Virgil in the last circle of hell
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Six Watercolors https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/297320
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Virginia Ostrom
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The Resurrection https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/the-resurrection
The Resurrection
November 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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With Songs the Jovial Hinds Return from Plow https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/359162
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn in honor of Miriam Stewart
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Nebuchadnezzar http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-nebuchadnezzar-n05059
date inscribed Presented by W. Graham Robertson 1939
November 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Illustration to Dante's Divine Comedy, Hell https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/illustration-to-dante-s-divine-comedy-hell-1
Illustration to Dante's Divine Comedy, Hell
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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The Book of Job: Pl. 4, And I only am escaped alone to tell thee https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.260.e
The Book of Job: Pl. 4, And I only am escaped alone to tell thee
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Detailed Drawings for ‘A Figure Standing in a Gothic Apse’ http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-detailed-drawings-for-a-figure-standing-in-a-gothic-apse-t01335
Purchased 1971
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Preliminary Sketch for ‘Christ Girding Himself with Strength’. Verso: Standing Figure with One Arm Raised http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-preliminary-sketch-for-christ-girding-himself-with-strength-verso-standing-figure-a00043
Presented by Mrs John Richmond 1922
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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The Book of Job: Pl. 12, I am Young and ye are very Old wherefore I was afraid https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.260.m
The Book of Job: Pl. 12, I am Young and ye are very Old wherefore I was afraid
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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The Rock Sculptured with the Recovery of the Ark and the Annunciation http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-the-rock-sculptured-with-the-recovery-of-the-ark-and-the-annunciation-n03368
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
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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David Delivered out of Many Waters http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-david-delivered-out-of-many-waters-n02230
Presented by George Thomas Saul 1878
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Six Watercolors https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/297302
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Virginia Ostrom
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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There were not found Women fair as the Daughters of Job in all the Land & their Father gave them Inheritance among their Brethren https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46455/
It is not enough to be saved. The redeemed must now show the way to others. This is accomplished by means of the arts. Job is relating his experiences to his three daughters-Poetry, Painting and Music. They are enriched by their inheritance of Job's experiences, for the benefit of their spiritual brothers. Aesthetic creation is a lower form of mystical ecstasy, the Whirlwind, which is depicted immediately above Job. Depictions of the disasters that befell him are visible in panels to the left and right. Since he is now sacrificing himself for mankind, Job faces outward in the cruciform position of the God, seen in the panel above him. The two texts in the upper margin (Psalm cxxxis) state that inspiration comes from God and is to be found everywhere. The floor consists of a great circle formed into a mosaic pattern with many smaller interlacing circles. This represents the communion of the heaven of art. The inscribed portions being contained in one great circle, who is the One Man, Jesus himself. Art is the sacrificial wine of the Eucharist. In the margins are fruiting grapevines and instruments of music. The miniscule angels who embrace on the corners repeat this communion of joy.
November 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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The Book of Job: Pl. 13, Then the Lord answered Job out of the Whirlwind https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.260.n
The Book of Job: Pl. 13, Then the Lord answered Job out of the Whirlwind
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/illustration-to-milton-s-paradise-lost-1808-3
Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Thenot and Colinet Converse Seated between Two Trees http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-thenot-and-colinet-converse-seated-between-two-trees-a00113
Presented by Herbert Linnell 1924
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Then the Lord answered Job out of the Whirlwind https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46419/
Finally, in the Whirlwind of the mystical ecstasy, the true God is manifest. He is Jesus, the Divine Imagination, and the Forgiveness of Sins: the only God whom Blake recognized. He is in a cruciform position and his right foot is forward. He descends below the cloud-barriers which normally separate the worlds. Job and his wife behold God with serene joy. To the right, Job's friends cannot see God because the blast blows them flat like the Forest of Error in the margin below. Job's pride is crushed at last; his life is made straight; his faith is confirmed. In the upper margin continues the circular motion of the Whirlwind. The figures are the six Eyes in their rotation; inevitably they have reached the seventh, who is Jesus, whose likeness is that of Job.
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM