William Blake

Illustration to Dante's Divine Comedy, Hell

Illustration to Dante's Divine Comedy, Hell https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/illustration-to-dante-s-divine-comedy-hell-3

Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost

Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/illustration-to-milton-s-paradise-lost-1807-1

Presented by the executors of W. Graham Robertson through the Art Fund 1949

The Penance of Jane Shore in St Paul’s Church http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-the-penance-of-jane-shore-in-st-pauls-church-n05898

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

"Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine," https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/257737

Presented by British Museum Publications Ltd 1977

Thenot and Colinet Folding their Flocks together at Sunset http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-thenot-and-colinet-folding-their-flocks-together-at-sunset-t02128

Purchased 1992

Queen Elizabeth and Essex (after Henry Fuseli) http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-queen-elizabeth-and-essex-after-henry-fuseli-t06589

Illustration to Milton`s Comus

Illustration to Milton`s Comus https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/illustration-to-milton-s-comus-1820-4

I Have Heard Thee with the Hearing of the Ear but Now My Eyes Seeth Thee, from Illustrations of the Book of Job

I Have Heard Thee with the Hearing of the Ear but Now My Eyes Seeth Thee, from Illustrations of the Book of Job https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/158159

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

The Pit of Disease: The Falsifiers http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-the-pit-of-disease-the-falsifiers-n03362

Presented by George Thomas Saul 1878

Epitome of James Hervey’s ‘Meditations among the Tombs’ http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-epitome-of-james-herveys-meditations-among-the-tombs-n02231

The Book of Job: Pl. 6, And smote Job with sore Boils / from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head

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/1963.303.7

Mystical ecstasy is a state of knowledge as well as emotion but the knowledge is usually so profound as to be incommunicable afterward. Blake possessed two arts to capture and define the wisdom derived from ecstasy. The vision in the universe evoked in this illustration reflects Job's experience with the Whirlwind depicted in the preceding plate. This universe is the fourfold soul of man: the flesh, the brain, the heart, and the imagination. The lowest is the world of the flesh, where Job sits with his wife and friends enclosed by the thickest cloud-barriers. Above them to the left is the Greek god Apollo, who represents the intellect. This radiant sun god, drawn by the horses of instruction, strives perpetually to push back the clouds enclosing his domain to enlarge it. His counterpart on the right is the moon goddess Diana, the heart. Her purity guides the dragons of passion during the night of marriage. Highest of all is the realm of the imagination, enclosed by the thinnest cloud-barriers. It is separated from the others by a small space, which expands into other empty spaces, suggesting that there exist as yet unknown worlds in the human soul. The central figure of God is always the Divine Imagination in Blake's writings. He is in the cruciform position of self-sacrifice. His arms protect the brain and the heart, and only through him can the realm of spirit be entered. In his poems, Blake named these realms "the Four Zoas": Tharmas, the flesh; Urizen, the intellect; Luvah, the emotions; and Los, the creative spirit. In the side margins are the six days of the creation, the Sabbath and Millennium, the spiritual rebirth of man. The lower margin continues the cloud-barrier of the realm of the flesh with the Leviathan of Nature, which resides in the Sea of Time and Space. Below him is the worm of death, coiled around a shrouded corpse. In the upper corners are the constellations Pleiades and Orion.

When the morning Stars sang together, & all the Sons of God shouted for joy https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46452/

The marriage of Heaven & Hell

The marriage of Heaven & Hell https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/the-marriage-of-heaven-hell-1793

The Angel of Revelation

The Angel of Revelation https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/the-angel-of-revelation-1805

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

Cerberus http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-cerberus-n03354

Then the Lord Answered Job out of the Whirlwind, from Illustrations of the Book of Job

Then the Lord Answered Job out of the Whirlwind, from Illustrations of the Book of Job https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/158155

Presented by Herbert Linnell 1924

‘With Songs the Jovial Hinds Return from Plow’ http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-with-songs-the-jovial-hinds-return-from-plow-a00126

The Book of Job: Pl. 4, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee

The Book of Job: Pl. 4, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.395

The Book of Job

The Book of Job https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.303

Presented by Miss Mary H. Dodge through the Art Fund 1918

Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-satan-smiting-job-with-sore-boils-n03340

The Book of Job: Pl. 14, When the morning Stars sang together, and all the / Sons of God shouted for joy

The Book of Job: Pl. 14, When the morning Stars sang together, and all the / Sons of God shouted for joy https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.303.15

Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew 1940

Age Teaching Youth http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-age-teaching-youth-n05183

Presented by Lessing J. Rosenwald 1975

The Pit of Disease: The Falsifiers http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-the-pit-of-disease-the-falsifiers-t01955

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

"Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind," https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/257729

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

War https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/297821

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

Plutus http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-plutus-n03355

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Behold Now Behemoth, Which I Made With Thee (The Book of Job) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/297860

Purchased with funds provided by the Art Fund, Tate Members, Tate Patrons, Tate Fund and individual donors 2009

First Book of Urizen pl. 17 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-first-book-of-urizen-pl-17-t12998

Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost

Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/illustration-to-milton-s-paradise-lost-1808-2

Purchased with funds provided by the Art Fund, Tate Members, Tate Patrons, Tate Fund and individual donors 2009

First Book of Urizen pl. 11 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-first-book-of-urizen-pl-11-t13004