Catalogue
- Year
- 1825
- Medium
- engraving on thick paper
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- William Blake
Artist
Painting
William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself".
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The Circle of the Thieves; Agnolo Brunelleschi Attacked by a Six-Footed Serpent. Inferno, canto XXV
1827 · Hand-colored engraving on India paper, laid down on wove paper (chine collé)
The Circle of the Thieves; Buoso Donati Attacked by the Serpent. Inferno, canto XXV
1827 · Hand-colored engraving on India paper, laid down on wove paper (chine collé)
The Circle of the Corrupt Officials; the Devils Tormenting Ciampolo. Inferno, canto XXII
1827 · Hand-colored engraving on India paper, laid down on wove paper (chine collé)
The Circle of the Falsifiers: Dante and Virgil Covering their Noses Because of the Stench. Inferno, canto XXIX
1827 · Hand-colored engraving on India paper, laid down on wove paper (chine collé)
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- William Blake
- Year
- 1825
- Medium
- engraving on thick paper
- Watts ID
- WW-1825-238088
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- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
- View at source
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- verified