Art, literature & history
The Destruction of Job's Sons
1825
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on India paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 21.6 x 17.2 cm (8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 41.9 x 33.3 cm (16 1/2 x 13 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1941.1.228
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Blake. The Destruction of Job's Sons. William Blake; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Blake,_The_Destruction_of_Job%27s_Sons,_1825,_NGA_807.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Destruction of Job's Sons — William Blake. 1825.
Medium: engraving on India paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 21.6 x 17.2 cm (8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 41.9 x 33.3 cm (16 1/2 x 13 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1941.1.228. Gift of W.G. Russell Allen.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.