The Circle of Traitors: Dante's Foot Striking Bocca degli Abbate, from Dante's Divine Comedy

William Blake, English, 1757 - 1827

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1827; published 1892

Engraving on chine appliqué

Impression: 10 7/8 × 14 in. (27.6 × 35.6 cm)

Sheet: 15 1/4 × 21 1/2 in. (38.7 × 54.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Philip Hofer

PR.945.68

Geography

Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Course History

FRIT 33, Dante: The Divine Comedy, Scott Millspaugh, Winter 2014

Exhibition History

18th Century English Graphics, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 29-December 10, 1978.

Durer and Related Works, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1971.

Outcasts and Rebels: Prints by William Blake and Leonard Baskin, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, September 25-December 16, 2012.

Provenance

From the collection of William Blake's patron, John Linnell (1792-1882); collected by Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1945.

Catalogue Raisonne

D. Bindman, The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake, New York, 1978, no. 653.

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