- Title:
- Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1827
- Materials & Techniques:
- Bound volume of seven prints on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Spine: 22 1/4 inches (56.5 cm), Overall: 22 1/4 × 16 1/8 × 1/2 inches (56.5 × 41 × 1.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed inside front cover in graphite, upper left: "HBC #983 | Nei = | Blake"; on front endpaper: "300 | ch x bb"
Bookplate: Oak Spring | Paul Mellon
Lettered cover: "BLAKE'S DANTE"; label inside front cover: "BLAKE'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF DANTE | Seven Plates, designed and engraved by W. Blake, Author of 'Illustrations of | the Book of Job,' &c, &c. | Price £2 2s. India Paper. | Plate 1. ... and like a corse fell to the ground. Hell; Canto v. line 137. | Plate II. ...seiz'd on his arm, And mangled bore away the sinewy part. Hell; Canto xxii. line 70. | Plate III. ...so turn'd His talons on his comrade. Hell; Canto xxii. line 135. | Plate IV. ... lo! a serpent with six feet Springs forth on one, Hell; Canto xxv. line 45. | Plate V. He ey'd the serpent and the serpent him. Hell; Canto xxv. line 82. | Plate VI. ...Then two I mark'd, that sat Propp'd 'gainst each other, Hell; Canto xxix. line 71. | Plate VII. 'Wherefore dost bruise me?' weeping he exclaim'd. Hell; Canto xxii. line 79. | Cary's Dante."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.9
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:57617
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The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]