William BLAKE

The Necromancers and Augurs
(1824-1827)
illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno XX, 1-56)

Medium

pen and ink and watercolour over black chalk and traces of pencil

Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920

Gallery location: Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium

pen and ink and watercolour over black chalk and traces of pencil

Measurements

52.7 × 37.2 cm (sheet)

Place/s of Execution

London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné

Butlin 812.36; Butlin & Gott 15

Inscription

inscribed in pen and ink HELL Canto
inscribed in pencil Hell Canto 20 (partly erased)
inscribed in pencil on reverse 65
inscribed in pencil on reverse Hell Canto 34
inscribed in pencil on reverse N 61 last in the Inferno / unless from (...illeg.) Inferno (...illeg.) Dante lifted / by Virgil past (...illeg.) Lucifer (...illeg.) (erased)

Accession Number

1001-3

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)

blue colours damned (people) Divine Comedy, The (narrative poem, Dante, ca. 1308-1321) green colours sin (religious concept) souls tear (secretion) yellow colours

Movements

Romanticism (modern European styles )

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William BLAKE

The Necromancers and Augurs
(1824-1827)
illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno XX, 1-56)