Four drawings related to the series engravings are known: Job receiving the News of his ill Fortune at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, The Magdalen washing Christ's Feet in the Witt Collection, London, The Presentation in the Temple in the P. & N. de Boer Foundation, Amsterdam and David and Abigail, sold at Sotheby's, London, 27 June 1974, lot 165, illustrated.
The series illustrates the eight conditions of blessedness as described by Christ in Matthew 5: 1-12