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A drawing of three robed figures outside. Two are young and one is an old man with a beard.

A drawing of three robed figures standing together outside. The figure on the left has its back to the viewer with their left arm raised in the air while their right hangs by their side. This figure looks to the right towards the figure in the middle who faces the viewer with both hands raised and palms facing out. On the far right is a bearded old man who is framed by a cloud behind him. He gestures towards the figure in the middle.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.660
People
William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
Title
Dante, Virgil and Cato (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/297580

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite with touches of gray ink and watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
52.6 × 37 cm (20 11/16 × 14 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: ll: P....g, Canto 1

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
1943.660
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1981), no. 812 (71)
  • David Bindman, William Blake: The Divine Comedy/Die göttliche Komödie/La divine comédie, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, 2000), pl. 73 (color)

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