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The Necromancers and Augurs

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

Measurements
52.7 × 37.2 cm (sheet)

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

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Butlin 812.36; Butlin & Gott 15

Inscription
inscribed in pen and ink l.r.: HELL Canto
inscribed in pencil l.r.: Hell Canto 20 (partly erased)
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.r.: 65
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.r.: Hell Canto 34
inscribed in pencil on reverse c.: 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

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