William Blake
Job rebuked by his friends

Artwork Detail
The Romantic movement in eighteenth-century Western Europe was fascinated with ideas about intuition, emotion and mysticism, favouring subjective responses over the rational mind. Blake's The Book of Job draws on such interpretations of meaning alongside current debates over the Sublime, which reworked its original meaning as 'supreme beauty' into a new dynamic and powerful force, divinely inspired. The rhythmic composition of the accusers' outstretched arms has the repetitive effect of a Greek chorus and is extraordinarily expressive. (Monsters and Maidens, 2004)
- Title
- Job rebuked by his friends
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 1825
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- 215 x 162 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1980
- Accession no
- 1980/10/10
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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