The Circle of Thieves: Buoso Donati Attacked by the Serpent, from Dante's Inferno (Canto XXV)
William Blake, English, 1757 - 1827
1827; published 1892
Engraving on chine collé
Second edition issued by the Linnell Family in 1892
Plate: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.5 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/8 × 15 1/2 in. (30.8 × 39.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.991.17.1
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Course History
FRIT 33, Dante: The Divine Comedy, Scott Millspaugh, Winter 2014
Exhibition History
200 Years of British Prints, William Weston Gallery / Aldis Brown Fine Arts, Ltd., 1983.
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 11.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 11.
William Weston Gallery, 200 Years of British Prints, New York, New York, 1983, no. 42.
Provenance
Aldis Browne Fine Arts, Ltd.; sold to Adolp Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, 1983; given to present collection, 1983.
Catalogue Raisonne
D. Bindman, The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake, New York, 1978, no. 651.
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