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Job's Evil Dreams

William Blake
1757-1827

Job's Evil Dreams

9 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches (236 x 288 mm)
Pen and black ink and wash, watercolor, over graphite, on paper.
2001.73

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
One of twenty-one original drawings executed for Thomas Butts, ca. 1805-10, illustrating the Book of Job. This sheet is no. 11 in the series.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in pen and black ink at lower right, "inv WB".
Associated names
Butts, Thomas, 1759-1846, former owner.
Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron, 1809-1885, former owner.
Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquis of, 1858-1945, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Régis, Michel. La peinture comme crime ou la part maudite de la modernité. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001, pp. 127 and 359, no. 80, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department