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The Stygian Lake, with the Ireful Sinners fighting

The Stygian Lake, with the Ireful Sinners fighting
(1824-1827)
illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno VII, 106-26)

Medium
pen and ink and watercolour over pencil and traces of black chalk with sponging

Measurements
52.7 × 37.1 cm (image and 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 812.15; Butlin & Gott 8

Inscription
inscribed in pencil u.c.: HELL Stygian Lake (...illeg.) Canto 7 (erased)
overinscribed in pencil on previous inscription u.c.: The Stygian Lake
inscribed in pen and ink over pencil l.r.: HELL Canto 7
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.r.: 6
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.c.: No 4 next at p 49
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.c.: HELL Canto 3

Accession Number
992-3

Department
International Prints and Drawings

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