Title-page
Maker
(artist)
1755-1826
(engraver)
ca. 1752-1824 (Life dates)
(publisher)
1755-1826
(engraver)
ca. 1752-1824 (Life dates)
(publisher)
Title
Title-page
Date of Production
01/05/1807
Medium
Engraving, black ink on paper
Dimensions
Height: 16 cm
Width: 20.8 cm
Width: 20.8 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.4273.1
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Exhibition History
Print Room Display - Flaxman's Dante, The Courtauld Gallery (Prints and Drawings Study Room), 25/02/2016-24/06/2016
Inscriptions
Inscription: In image, recto: upper centre, black ink: COMPOSITIONS / FROM / THE HELL, PVRGATORY, AND PARADISE, / OF / DANTE ALIGHIERI, / BY IOHN FLAXMAN, SCVLPTOR.; lower margin, black ink: Engraved by Thomas Piroli, from the Drawings in Possession of Thomas Hope Esqr, 1793. / LONDON, Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES,. [ampersand] ORME, Paternoster Row, R.H. EVANS, Pall Mall, W. Miller, Albermarle Street, [ampersand] I [ampersand]A. ARCH, Cornhill, May 1, 1807.
Sheet, recto: lower centre margin, black print: J. FLAXMAN
Stamp: Sheet, recto: upper left margin, black ink stamp: WITT/ LIBRARY
Stamp: Sheet, recto: upper left margin, black ink stamp: WITT/ LIBRARY
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