1943.661: The Terrace of Envious Souls (from Dante's "Divine Comedy")
DrawingsA loosely sketched drawing of a cloudy seaside landscape with a group of figures on a mountain ledge. Puffy clouds dominate the upper left with a few rays of sunlight filtering through. Two figures on the mountain ledge view a group of figures leaning into the mountainside. One of that group is moving away from the mountainside and moving towards the two figures on the ledge. Waves in a body of water are next to the mountain. P-g Canto 13 is written in the center of the drawing near the bottom.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.661
- People
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William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
- Title
- The Terrace of Envious Souls (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/297545
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 52.7 × 37 cm (20 3/4 × 14 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lc: P...g Canto 13
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
- 1943.661
- 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
- Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1981), no. 812 (83)
- Martin Butlin and Ted Gott, William Blake in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (Melbourne, 1989), p. 84
- David Bindman, William Blake: The Divine Comedy/Die göttliche Komödie/La divine comédie, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, 2000), pl. 86 (color)
- Silvia Riccardi, "The Body in the Line: 'Trasumanar' in Blake's Dante", Blake: An Illustrated Quartely (Fall 2021), fig. 7, repr.
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