Vanni Fucci 'making Figs' against God
(1824-1827)
illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno XXV, 1-15)

William BLAKE

Gallery location: Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium

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

Measurements

52.7 × 37.2 cm (sheet)

Place/s of Execution

London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné

Butlin 812.49; Butlin & Gott 20

Inscription

inscribed in pen and ink HELL Canto 25
inscribed in pencil on reverse 34
inscribed in pencil on reverse r. edge: Pg-Canto 9

Accession Number

1005-3

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)

damned (people) Divine Comedy, The (narrative poem, Dante, ca. 1308-1321) fire (physical concept) hell (doctrinal concept) nudes (representations) purgatory serpents (general, animals) souls

Movements

Romanticism (modern European styles )

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Vanni Fucci 'making Figs' against God
(1824-1827)
illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno XXV, 1-15)

William BLAKE