1943.439: Dante and Virgil in the Skiff of Phlegyas are Hailed by Filippo Argenti (from Dante's "Divine Comedy"); verso: sketch for "The Six-Footed Serpent Attacking Agnolo Brunelleschi"(?)
DrawingsIn the foreground at left, two robed figures in profile stand in a small boat floating in a river. One of the two leans forward, pushing down on the head of a man emerging from the water who shouts and raises his hands over his head. At right, another figure, a bearded man, also stands in the water leaning into the front of the boat and looking on. In the distance on the other side of the river, a cone shaped tower can be seen on the shore, and rolling hills beyond that.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.439
- People
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William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
- Title
- Dante and Virgil in the Skiff of Phlegyas are Hailed by Filippo Argenti (from Dante's "Divine Comedy"); verso: sketch for "The Six-Footed Serpent Attacking Agnolo Brunelleschi"(?)
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: Virgil Repelling Filippo Argenti from the Boat of Phlegyas
Series/Book Title: Dante, "The Divine Comedy" - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1824-1827
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297626
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor, black ink, graphite, and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
- Dimensions
- 37 × 52.2 cm (14 9/16 × 20 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lr: HELL Canto 8
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
- 1943.439
- 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 (18), pl. 1055
- Charles H. Taylor and Patricia Finley, Images of the Journey in Dante's Divine Comedy, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1997), p. 36, fig. 31 (color)
- David Bindman, William Blake: The Divine Comedy/Die göttliche Komödie/La divine comédie, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, 2000), pl. 18 (color)
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/24/2022 - 05/02/2022
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