The Circle of the Falsifiers: Dante and Virgil Covering their Noses Because of the Stench, from Dante's Inferno (Canto XXIX)

William Blake, English, 1757 - 1827

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1827; published 1892

Engraving on chine collé

Second edition issued by the Linnell Family in 1892

Plate: 10 7/8 × 14 in. (27.7 × 35.6 cm)

Sheet: 12 1/16 × 15 9/16 in. (30.7 × 39.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935

PR.991.17.2

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

200 Years of British Prints, William Weston Gallery / Aldis Browne Fine Arts, Ltd., 1983, no. 42.

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. 12.

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. 12.

William Weston Gallery, 200 Years of British Prints, New York, New York, 1983.

Provenance

Aldis Browne Fine Arts, Ltd., 1983; Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama; given to present collection, 1991.

Catalogue Raisonne

D. Bindman, The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake, New York, 1978, no. 652.

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