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BLAKE (WILLIAM)
Illustrations of the Book of Job, William Blake, 8 March 1825 [but 1874]

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BLAKE (WILLIAM)

Illustrations of the Book of Job, engraved title and 21 engraved plates on India paper (without the word "Proof"), mounted on heavy unwatermarked wove, sheets numbered at corners in pencil, sheet of plate 20 creased and strengthened at upper right corner, loose in solander box by J. & S. Brockman [Bentley 421B; Keynes 55], folio (510 x 345mm.), William Blake, 8 March 1825 [but 1874]

Footnotes

One of 100 sets on India paper, pulled from the original plates in 1874. Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job were first commissioned and paid for in 1826 by John Linnell, when 215 proof sets and 100 sets "on drawing paper" were issued. According to Linnell's son, the plates were then put away for the best part of fifty years, before 100 fresh prints were struck; "my father considered the plates at the last [1874] were as good as they ever were, for the work being cut by a graver, and not etched, it is durable - and is not worn by the printing as is the case with an etching" (Bentley p.523).

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