Dante and Virgil Escaping from the Devils (from Dante's "Divine Comedy"); verso: Sketch of rocks
1824-1827
Artists
Dimensions
52.3 × 36.9 cm (20 9/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by John Linnell, by 1830, sold through his sale [Christie's, London, March 15, 1918, as part of lot 148]; to Alec Martin for the National Art-Collections Fund, London. [Scott & Fowles, New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1921, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
Related Artworks
View MoreMetalpoint on prepared paper
19th centuryBritishGraphite on paper
19th centuryBritishBlack, red, and white chalk on green wove paper, two sheets joined
19th centuryBritishBrown ink and graphite on thin cream wove paper
19th centuryBritishGray and blue-gray wash over graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryBritishGraphite, fixed, on off-white wove paper, laid down
18th-19th centuryBritishWatercolor and black and brown ink on off white wove paper
19th centuryBritishGraphite on heavy cream wove paper
19th centuryBritishGraphite on tracing paper
19th-20th centuryBritish
Graphite on off-white paper
19th-20th centuryBritish