Dante running from the Three Beasts
(1824-1827)
illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno I, 1-90)

William BLAKE

Gallery location: Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium

pen and ink and watercolour over pencil and black chalk

Measurements

37.3 × 52.8 cm (image and sheet)

Place/s of Execution

London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné

Butlin 812.1; Butlin & Gott 3

Inscription

inscribed in watercolour (in image) LAGO / de VUOR
inscribed (diagonally) in pen and ink (in image) HELL Canto I WB
inscribed (vertically) in pencil on reverse 4
inscribed in pencil on reverse No. 2 next at p 6
inscribed in pencil on reverse No. 2 next at p 6 (erased)

Accession Number

988-3

Department

International Prints and Drawings

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Gallery location

Not on display

Subjects (general)

Literary and Text Religion and Mythology

Subjects (specific)

beasts Divine Comedy, The (narrative poem, Dante, ca. 1308-1321) monsters (legendary beings) oceans souls suns (stars) trees Virgil

Movements

Romanticism (modern European styles )

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Dante running from the Three Beasts
(1824-1827)
illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno I, 1-90)

William BLAKE