Past Exhibition

William Blake

The image depicts a surreal scene featuring mythical creatures. A central figure resembling a hybrid creature, possibly a mixture of a serpent, lion, and human, is surrounded by smaller hybrid figures. The drawing is detailed with various textures and intricate line work, creating a dream-like quality. Inscriptions with themes of wickedness, hypocrisy, dreams, visions, and references to Satan and God are included in a border around the central image. The overall style is reminiscent of William Blake's works, combining poetry with visionary art.
William Blake, Job's Evil Dreams, 1825, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.1813

Details

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  • Locations

    Ground Floor, Galleries G-9, G-10, G-11, G-12
The image depicts a surreal scene featuring mythical creatures. A central figure resembling a hybrid creature, possibly a mixture of a serpent, lion, and human, is surrounded by smaller hybrid figures. The drawing is detailed with various textures and intricate line work, creating a dream-like quality. Inscriptions with themes of wickedness, hypocrisy, dreams, visions, and references to Satan and God are included in a border around the central image. The overall style is reminiscent of William Blake's works, combining poetry with visionary art.
William Blake, Job's Evil Dreams, 1825, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.1813

Overview: This was the first American showing of an exhibition arranged by the Blake Trust. It had been held the previous summer at the Tate Gallery in London. Rare books and manuscripts were lent to the exhibition by Lessing Rosenwald, Paul Mellon, Sir Geoffrey Keynes, founder of the Blake Trust, and Kerrison Preston. Also included were facsimile books made for the Blake Trust by the Trianon Press, Paris.

Organization: A large part of the exhibition was circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

Commemorative handbook: An Exhibition of the Illuminated Books of William Blake: Poet, Printer, Prophet, by Geoffrey Keynes. Paris: Trianon Press for the Blake Trust, 1964.

Attendance: 10,071

Other Venues:

  • Tate Gallery, London
  • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 12/05/1964–01/03/1965
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 01/16/1965–02/14/1965
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 02/27/1965–03/28/1965
  • Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 04/10/1965–05/09/1965
  • Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, 07/03/1965–08/01/1965
  • Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada, 09/25/1965–10/24/1965
  • Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 12/18/1965–01/01/1966
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 11/19/1966–12/18/1966

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