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Antaeus setting down Dante and Virgil in the Last Circle of Hell
(1824-1827)
illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno XXXI, 112-143)
Medium
pen and ink and watercolour over pencil and black chalk, with sponging and scratching out
Measurements
52.6 × 37.4 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Butlin 812.63; Butlin & Gott 27
Inscription
inscribed in pen and ink l.r.: HELL Canto 31
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.r.: 2
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.c.: N 3 next at p 3
inscribed in pencil on reverse c.: N 3 next at p 3 (erased)
Accession Number
1012-3
Department
International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Literary and Text Religion and Mythology
Subjects (specific)
clouds damned (people) Divine Comedy, The (narrative poem, Dante, ca. 1308-1321) giants (mythical beings) hell (doctrinal concept) purgatory souls Virgil
Movements
Romanticism (modern European styles )