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English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827. // #artbot made thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 59m

Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/il…

Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 14h

Title page from Illustrations of the Book of Job collections.artsmia.org/art/46425

A flight of seven angels descends, then rises again corresponding to the underground course of the sun. They symbolize the path of experience-the states which Job passes. Clockwise from the right, they are Lucifer, a man in his original state of selfhood; Molech, the Executioner; Elohim, the Judge of others; Shaddai, the Accuser; Pahad, man's honor at the results of infernal justice; Jehova, the institutor of the laws of conduct; Jesus, the Savior.

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 18h

The Book of Job: Pl. 8, Let the Day perish wherein I was Born clevelandart.org/art/1963.303.9

The Book of Job: Pl. 8, Let the Day perish wherein I was Born

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dante in the Empyrean, Drinking at the River of Light www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

First Book of Urizen pl. 6 www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nebuchadnezzar collections.artsmia.org/art/8480

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon failed to heed the prophet Daniel’s warning to mend his sinful ways and show mercy to the poor. God stripped the king of his realm and drove him to “eat grass as oxen, . . . his body . . . wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws” (Daniel 4:33). Poet-painter William Blake’s luminous exploration of depravity is part of his extended investigation of the Sublime, the irrational realm of visceral, overwhelming emotion—the flip side of the Enlightenment—where God and nature tower over even the most powerful human being.

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Job and his Daughters www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bathsheba at the Bath www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

Presented by the Art Fund 1914

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Illustration to Milton`s Comus www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/il…

Illustration to Milton`s Comus

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Illustration to Dante's Divine Comedy www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/il…

Illustration to Dante's Divine Comedy

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Ghost of a Flea www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/th…

The Ghost of a Flea

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Then a Spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh stood up collections.artsmia.org/art/46431

The long arguments of Job's friends are condensed in this illustration. They insist that since God is just and that Job's tribulations are the punishment for his sins. Eliphaz seen reclining above describes this God (Pahad), who is a nightmare. His arms are concealed and he is obliged to reward or punish according to whatever mankind deserves. In the margins is the "forest of the night," a traditional symbol for the sterile growth of errors, whose false theories block the path to and hide the heavens. These trees are to be blown down by the whirlwind.

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When the Morning Stars Sang Together www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Then a spirit passed before my face," www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Procession of Monks, met by Three Women www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. Alfred Mansfield Brooks

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Blighted Corn www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

Presented by Herbert Linnell 1924

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Vision of Christ www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Book of Job: Pl. 16, Thou hast fulfilled the Judgment of the Wicked clevelandart.org/art/1963.303.17

The Book of Job: Pl. 16, Thou hast fulfilled the Judgment of the Wicked

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Book of Job: Pl. 17, I have heard thee with the hearing of the Ear but now my Eye seeth thee clevelandart.org/art/1963.303.18

The Book of Job: Pl. 17, I have heard thee with the hearing of the Ear but now my Eye seeth thee

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Behold now Behemoth which I made with thee collections.artsmia.org/art/46421

Here, God explains the mystery of the incessant warfare in the human world. He reaches down through the cloud-barrier with his left hand to indicate Behemoth and Leviathan. These two creatures exist in man himself; God proclaims to Job "Behold now Behemoth which I made with thee." (Job xl: 15-24; lxi: 1-34). The cloud-barrier of Job's world includes the sphere in which they exist; it is a picture of the subconscious, the unredeemed portion of psyche, which the bulrushes identify as Egypt-the unredeemed portion of mankind. These are the terrible forces within man, against which he seems helpless: "the War by Sea enormous and the War by Land astounding, erecting pillars in the deepest Hell to reach the heavenly arches" (Blake, Jerusalem, 91: 39-42). They also function as a means of God's providence. Behemoth is "the chief ways of God": warfare of the spirit is one of the chief joys of Eternity, though when materialized on earth it is rendered deadly (Milton 34: 50-52; 35: 2-3). Leviathan is King over all the Children of Pride-that is, over all unredeemed mankind. His name means "coiled," and therefore he is depicted as having a huge spiral, representing the everlasting repetitions in the round of nature. At the upper corners, angels write the laws of the universe; at the lower corners are the eagles which Urizen sends forth in his work of creation (The Four Zoas ii: 150). Below are the emptied shells of the mortal bodies which are grown by man's spirit and then abandoned on the margin of the Sea of Time and Space.

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Book of Job: Pl. 19, Every one also gave him a piece of Money clevelandart.org/art/1968.260.t

The Book of Job: Pl. 19, Every one also gave him a piece of Money

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Circle of the Lustful: Francesca da Rimini (‘The Whirlwind of Lovers’) www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Sun in His Wrath www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/th…

The Sun in His Wrath

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Illustration to Milton`s Comus www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/il…

Illustration to Milton`s Comus

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‘Nor Fox, nor Wolf, nor Rat among our Sheep’ www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

Presented by Herbert Linnell 1924

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The marriage of Heaven & Hell www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/th…

The marriage of Heaven & Hell

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Nativity www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/th…

The Nativity

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Jakob Rosenberg

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Behemoth and Leviathan www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Presentation in the Temple ("Simeon was not to See Death before he had Seen the Christ") www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Ascent of the Mountain of Purgatory www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Age Teaching Youth www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew 1940

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Six Watercolors www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Virginia Ostrom

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The blasphemer www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/bl…

The blasphemer

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Book of Job: Pl. 13, Then the Lord answered Job out of the Whirlwind clevelandart.org/art/1963.303.14

The Book of Job: Pl. 13, Then the Lord answered Job out of the Whirlwind

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Book of Job: Pl. 20, There were not found Women fair as the Daughters of Job / in all the Land clevelandart.org/art/1963.303.21

The Book of Job: Pl. 20, There were not found Women fair as the Daughters of Job / in all the Land

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/il…

Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"There were not found women fair as the daughters of Job." www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

First Book of Urizen pl. 21 www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning collections.artsmia.org/art/46453

In the last segment of the Job saga, the long night is over and the sun rises. In the west is the moon, attended by two stars, one of which is the moving star Lucifer. Job's manhood, purged of all error, is now complete, and his wealth is doubled (Job xliii: 10). The whole family is reunited in harmony; the sons and daughters are restored. They no longer kneel nor are they silent. They and their parents praise the Lord with musical instruments formerly hung on the tree. The books of law have disappeared. The three arts join in the celebration: the daughter on the right plays a lyre (music), and the daughter in the foreground sings from a scroll (poetry); the slender book held by the daughter to the left represents painting. The Justice of the Old Testament are the Mercy of the New are invited: "they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are the works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints." (Revelation xv: 3)

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And Smote Job with Sore Boils from the Sole of his Feet to the Crown of his Head, from Illustrations of the Book of Job www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

And Smote Job with Sore Boils from the Sole of his Feet to the Crown of his Head, from Illustrations of the Book of Job

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Plate 4 of ‘Visions of the Daughters of Albion’ www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Antaeus setting down Dante and Virgil in the last circle of hell www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/an…

Antaeus setting down Dante and Virgil in the last circle of hell

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Centaurs and the River of Blood (from Dante's "Divine Comedy") www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

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

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

St Christopher, Copy from an Engraving? Verso:Part of a Face: Copy from a Plaster Cast: a Daughter of Niobe? www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-…

Presented by Mrs John Richmond 1922

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Book of Job: Pl. 15, Behold now Behemoth which I made with thee clevelandart.org/art/1968.260.p

The Book of Job: Pl. 15, Behold now Behemoth which I made with thee

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Minotaur www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/mi…

Minotaur

William Blake @williamblake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/il…

Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost