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The Devils setting out with Dante and Virgil (1824-1827)
pen and ink and watercolour over pencil and traces of black chalk
37.2 × 52.8 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920
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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
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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 )