1943.441: Ugolino's Narrative (from Dante's "Divine Comedy")
DrawingsAt center two men in robes stand next toe each other in profile. The figure at left in red, wears a pitying expression as he looks down at two men kneeling on the ground. At left one figure wearing red kneels in profile facing left. His bows and a wide brimmed hat falls off his head and blood is dripping from the back of his head. Behind him, a man with a long beard crouches over him facing us. His face is sorrowful as he gestures with both hands raised. Behind a small hill in the background a lake can be seen in the distance.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.441
- People
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William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
- Title
- Ugolino's Narrative (from Dante's "Divine Comedy")
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: Ugolino Relating his Death
Series/Book Title: Dante, "The Divine Comedy" - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1824-1827
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297951
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor, black ink, graphite, and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 37 × 52.3 cm (14 9/16 × 20 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lr: HELL Canto 33
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
- 1943.441
- 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 (67)
- Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Folio Society (London, England, 1998), repr. in color facing p. 131
- David Bindman, William Blake: The Divine Comedy/Die göttliche Komödie/La divine comédie, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, 2000), pl. 70 (color)
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