William Blake
Artwork Detail
God enables Job to look down on earth to view the wonders of his creation. The Behemoth is represented as a kind of hippopotamus, and represents the forces of the land. Its stylised form derives, like many other interpretations of the theme, from Durer's famous woodcut of a rhinoceros (1515), while the Leviathan is a great sea monster, not dissimilar to the serpent in Job's Evil Dream, rising out of the deep. (Monsters and Maidens, 2004)
- Title
- Behemoth and Leviathan
- Artist/creator
- William Blake
- Production date
- 1825
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- 214 x 162 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1980
- Accession no
- 1980/10/15
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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