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Dante running from the Three Beasts
(1824-1827)
illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno I, 1-90)
Medium
pen and ink and watercolour over pencil and black chalk
Measurements
37.3 × 52.8 cm (image and 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 812.1; Butlin & Gott 3
Inscription
inscribed in watercolour (in image) l.l.: LAGO / de VUOR
inscribed (diagonally) in pen and ink (in image) l.l.: HELL Canto I WB
inscribed (vertically) in pencil on reverse u.r.: 4
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.c.: No. 2 next at p 6
inscribed in pencil on reverse c.: No. 2 next at p 6 (erased)
Accession Number
988-3
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)
beasts Divine Comedy, The (narrative poem, Dante, ca. 1308-1321) monsters (legendary beings) oceans souls suns (stars) trees Virgil
Movements
Romanticism (modern European styles )