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The Just Upright Man is Laughed to Scorn (The Book of Job) by William Blake — VisualArtsDB

The Just Upright Man is Laughed to Scorn (The Book of Job)

The Just Upright Man is Laughed to Scorn (The Book of Job)

1821

Medium: Watercolor, black ink and graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 23.6 x 28.2 cm (9 5/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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