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Then a Spirit Passed Before My Face (The Book of Job) by William Blake — VisualArtsDB

Then a Spirit Passed Before My Face (The Book of Job)

Then a Spirit Passed Before My Face (The Book of Job)

1821

Medium: Watercolor, black ink and graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions: actual: 25 x 17.1 cm (9 13/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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british

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