whole composition of the victims, with their upraised arms, appeahng and struggling, more impressive.
(c) 'Then went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord.'
Exhibits some considerable difference from the engraving in the arrangement, though not in the general conception, of the heavenly group.
(d) The Arrival of Job's Friends.
As a general rule, the friends are less individualized the one from the other in the water-colours. Here the traces of the sunrays are less distinct: the hills are finely tinged in purple and green. Job's wife has the aspect of old age; an aspect less discernible in several others of the designs and engravings, especially in those where she is free from sorrow.
(e) 'The just upright man is laughed to scorn.'
Very fine, and one of the fullest in colour.
(f) Job's terrific Dream.
The serpent is gorgeous in prismatic tints—continually a strong point with Blake.
(g) 'When the morning stars sang together.'
The angelic group at the summit consists of only four figures, fully brought into the composition. In the engraving, the effect of sublimity and multitude is centupled by adding the upreared arms of two other angels to right and left, passing out of the composition. This appears to have been an after-thought during the progress of the engraving itself, as two thin wreaths of cloud, which close-in and 'finish off' the group in the design, appear also in the engraving.
(h) Leviathan and Behemoth.
Splendidly tinted, and, on the whole, quite as fine in the design as in the engraving. Behemoth is longer-muzzled in the former.
(i) 'I have heard Thee with the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth Thee.'
In the drawing, the friends do not turn their faces away from the presence of God, but towards Him, though kept buried in their hands. There is a fine aspect of portent in the sky and background to the right.
(j) Job's Sacrifice for his Friends.
Job here stands full-fronting the spectator: the friends are more upright than in the engraving.
(k) 'Every one also gave him a piece of money.'
The neighbours are three only, instead of four, and the design otherwise somewhat different from the engraving: the latter having the advantage.
(l) Job and his Three Daughters.
