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The Book of Job: Pl. 21, So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job / more than the beginning

William Blake

Cleveland Museum of Art

Sepia-toned illustration on aged paper. Central image: a group of people standing in a semi-circle around a woman. Woman wears a flowing gown and has her arms outstretched. People around her hold various objects, including horns, a harp, and a trumpet. Two lions and two oxen below the group. Text above and below the central image. Upper left text in a cloud shape reads, "Great & Marvellous are thy Works Lord God Almighty". Upper right text in a cloud shape reads, "Just & True are thy Ways O thou King of Saints". Text below central image reads, "So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning". Smaller text below that. Two cloud-like shapes at the bottom with more text and illustrations of a ram and a cow.

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