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A drawing of a naked muscular young man being pulled with a hook by a group of winged figures.

A drawing of a naked young man with short hair standing outside on a rocky shore. His head is lolled over on his left shoulder and his right arm is raised with his palm outstretched. His left arm is cut open at the bicep and from the cut a hook protrudes which is being held by the arm of one of three naked and winged figures on the right. The figure holding the hook pulls hard to the right with his large right leg digging into the ground. The other two winged figures look back at the youth.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.446
People
William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
Title
Ciampolo the Barrator Tormented by the Devils (from Dante's "Divine Comedy")
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Dante, "The Divine Comedy"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1824-1827
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297520

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black ink, graphite, and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
37.2 × 52.3 cm (14 5/8 × 20 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: ll: HELL Canto 22 line 70

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.446
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, p. 202
  • Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1981), no. 812 (41)
  • David Bindman, William Blake: The Divine Comedy/Die göttliche Komödie/La divine comédie, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, 2000), pl. 43 (color)
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 142, repr.
  • "Hell through the Ages", Index Magazine (e-journal, February 12, 2018), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/hell-through-the-ages, accessed March 13, 2018

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2018 - 05/09/2018

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