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Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine - William Blake
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A powerful engraving from William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job, depicting the dramatic destruction of Job's children's house.
This engraving is the third plate from William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job, a series produced between 1823 and 1826. The work depicts the moment of catastrophe described in the biblical text, where a great wind from the wilderness destroys the house of Job's children. Blake employs his characteristic visionary style, using dramatic contrasts of light and shadow to convey the intensity of the event. At the top of the composition, a demonic figure hovers amidst swirling clouds, representing the destructive force unleashed upon the family. Below, the figures are caught in a chaotic collapse of architecture, their bodies contorted in expressions of alarm and sudden ruin.
Blake's technical approach to engraving here demonstrates his mastery of line and cross-hatching. The composition is framed by a decorative border containing further text and marginal imagery, a common feature in his illuminated books. The scene balances the physical destruction of the building with the spiritual weight of the narrative. The figures are rendered with muscularity and anatomical precision, typical of Blake's interest in classical forms filtered through his own idiosyncratic imagination. This series is widely considered one of his most accomplished graphic achievements, demonstrating his ability to interpret complex theological themes through a personal visual language. The print captures the tension between divine judgment and human suffering, rendered with a stark, monochromatic clarity that draws the viewer into the centre of the narrative action. By focusing on the immediate aftermath of the collapse, Blake creates a sense of urgency and emotional gravity that defines the entire Job series.
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Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine - William Blake
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
William Blake
Blake saw angels in a tree when he was about eight years old, at Peckham Rye in south London. Bright angelic wings, he said, bespangling every bough like stars. When he reported this at home, his father nearly beat him for lying. His mother intervened. He was never sent to school. He later said he was grateful for this, having been spared being flogged into following the style of a fool.
He married Catherine Boucher in 1782. She was illiterate at the time and signed the marriage register with an X. He taught her to read, write, and engrave, and she became his collaborator for the next forty-five years: mixing paint, operating the printing press, hand-colouring plates, and binding the finished pages into covers.
Their working method was Blake's own invention, revealed to him (he said) in a dream by the spirit of his dead brother Robert. Relief etching reversed the standard printmaking process: instead of cutting lines into copper, Blake wrote and drew on the plate in acid-resistant varnish, then dissolved the surrounding metal with acid, leaving text and image raised. This allowed him to compose poetry and illustration simultaneously on a single plate, print them together, then hand-colour each sheet in watercolour. Every copy was therefore unique. Songs of Innocence and of Experience was produced this way. He sold fewer than thirty copies during his lifetime.
In 1803, he physically threw a soldier named John Schofield out of his garden in Felpham. He was charged with assault and with uttering treasonable expressions against the King. He was acquitted at the Chichester assizes in January 1804.
Newton, painted in 1795, shows the scientist as a young man with the body of a Greek god, bent forward at the bottom of a dark ocean, fixing his gaze on a pair of compasses, measuring and drawing on a scroll that appears to project from his own head. It is a painting about the limits of reason: beautiful, precise, and missing everything beyond the edge of the paper. The Ancient of Days, from the same period, depicts his mythological figure Urizen crouching at the edge of a void, reaching down with a compass to measure the darkness below.
He died on 12 August 1827, working on illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy. He was buried at Bunhill Fields. The wider recognition came decades later.
He married Catherine Boucher in 1782. She was illiterate at the time and signed the marriage register with an X. He taught her to read, write, and engrave, and she became his collaborator for the next forty-five years: mixing paint, operating the printing press, hand-colouring plates, and binding the finished pages into covers.
Their working method was Blake's own invention, revealed to him (he said) in a dream by the spirit of his dead brother Robert. Relief etching reversed the standard printmaking process: instead of cutting lines into copper, Blake wrote and drew on the plate in acid-resistant varnish, then dissolved the surrounding metal with acid, leaving text and image raised. This allowed him to compose poetry and illustration simultaneously on a single plate, print them together, then hand-colour each sheet in watercolour. Every copy was therefore unique. Songs of Innocence and of Experience was produced this way. He sold fewer than thirty copies during his lifetime.
In 1803, he physically threw a soldier named John Schofield out of his garden in Felpham. He was charged with assault and with uttering treasonable expressions against the King. He was acquitted at the Chichester assizes in January 1804.
Newton, painted in 1795, shows the scientist as a young man with the body of a Greek god, bent forward at the bottom of a dark ocean, fixing his gaze on a pair of compasses, measuring and drawing on a scroll that appears to project from his own head. It is a painting about the limits of reason: beautiful, precise, and missing everything beyond the edge of the paper. The Ancient of Days, from the same period, depicts his mythological figure Urizen crouching at the edge of a void, reaching down with a compass to measure the darkness below.
He died on 12 August 1827, working on illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy. He was buried at Bunhill Fields. The wider recognition came decades later.
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