DrawingsBritish19th century
The Complaint of the Giant Nimrod (from Dante's "Divine Comedy"); verso: slight black chalk sketch for recto
1824-1827
Artists
William BlakeArtist
Dimensions
52.9 × 37.2 cm (20 13/16 × 14 5/8 in.)
Provenance
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
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