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Entering the Dark Wood, Inferno, Canto I, Plate 1

Maker

(artist)
1755-1826

(engraver)
ca. 1752-1824 (Life dates)

(publisher)

Title

Entering the Dark Wood, Inferno, Canto I, Plate 1

Date of Production

01/05/1807

Medium

Engraving, black ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 16 cm
Width: 20.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4273.2

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Sheet, recto: upper centre margin, black ink: ENTERING THE DARK WOOD.; upper right corner, black ink: 1; lower centre margin, black ink: Dante Virgilio / ALLOR SI MOSSE, ED IO LI TENNI DIETRO. I SPOKE, THE BARD IN SILENCE SPED BEFORE. / Inferno Canto 1. Sheet, recto: lower centre margin, black print: J. FLAXMAN; lower left corner, black print: Compositions from the Hell, Purgatory and Paradise / of Dante Alighieri by John Flaxman, Sculptor. / Engraved by Thomas Piroli from drawings in the possession of Thomas Hope Esq. 1793.

Stamp: Sheet, recto: centre left margin, black ink stamp: WITT/ LIBRARY

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