1943.446: Ciampolo the Barrator Tormented by the Devils (from Dante's "Divine Comedy")
DrawingsA 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
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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
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- 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
- Permissions
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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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