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A drawing of a cloudy seaside landscape with a group of figures on a mountain ledge.

A 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
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
  • 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
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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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