The Collection·Room IV · The Western Canon·The Circle of the Lustful

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BLAKE · INFERNO V · 1827
The Circle of the Lustful
Blake's whirlwind of lovers: Paolo and Francesca from Inferno, Canto V, engraved in the last year of his life. From the National Gallery of Art, open access.
| source | National Gallery of Art, open access · William Blake, 1827 |
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| typeface | Caslon captions |
| paper | 100 lb cream cover |
| press | Thomas Graphics, Austin, Texas |
| edition | Numbered of 250, cotton paper, embossed maker's mark |
William Blake's engraving of Inferno, Canto V, the whirlwind of lovers swept past the poets, made in 1827, the last year of Blake's life, for his unfinished Dante series. Reproduced from National Gallery of Art open-access imagery, object 797. Hang it beside the dark wood it answers.
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