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The Devils setting out with Dante and Virgil
(1824-1827)
illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno XXI, 97-139)
Medium
pen and ink and watercolour over pencil and traces of black chalk
Measurements
37.2 × 52.8 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 812.39; Butlin & Gott 18
Inscription
inscribed in pen and ink l.r.: HELL / Canto 21
inscribed (vertically) in pencil on reverse l.c.r.: 52
inscribed (vertically) in ink on reverse u.r.: 52
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.c.: N 45 next at 77
inscribed in pencil on reverse r. edge: Hell Cento 25 Cacus (partly erased)
Accession Number
1003-3
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)
angels (spirits) devils (spirits) Divine Comedy, The (narrative poem, Dante, ca. 1308-1321) hell (doctrinal concept) purgatory Satan (Abrahamic religions character) souls Virgil
Movements
Romanticism (modern European styles )