The Book of Job certainly makes for a fun holiday read....not.My copy was the 1927 Westminster Press edition with the dreadful overrated William Blake engravings. These sketches were as far as I got in planning a new edition before giving up and having an ice cream instead.
Brushpen. Each page 21cm x 15cm. Click pics to enlarge.
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Oh goody somebody else who thinks the same way as I do about William Blake's artwork.
Yeah, Job, he was a bit of a hopeless case wasn't he? Would love to see (buy?) a piece of work based on this.
Oh no! I hope you change your mind back again! Nadler does Job -what a brilliant idea! I would most definitely pay money for something like that, on the basis of that hedge sketch alone.
I agree; dislike Blake, love the hedge and animals, full of admiration for Mr Nadler.
My vote, too, for the Nadler edition of Job. I'll even buy you an ice cream so that it's not an either/or.
I hadn't seen this Blake engravings before. By gum, he was having an off-day, wasn't he?
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