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

The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca. William Blake engraving for Dante's Inferno, 1827

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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.

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sourceNational Gallery of Art, open access · William Blake, 1827
typefaceCaslon captions
paper100 lb cream cover
pressThomas Graphics, Austin, Texas
editionNumbered 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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