DAC Collection Search - The Inferno According to Dante

☰ Open Filter >>

Object Results

Print this page

Photo Credit: photo: M. Johnston
View
Zoomable Image

Bookmark (persistent url): https://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/objects-1/info/1796

The Inferno According to Dante

ca. 1460-1480 (printed ca. 1812)
15th century
225 x 283 mm (8.9 x 11.1 in.)

Anonymous,

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Engraving on thin laid paper

Print impression quality: Rich; even lines

Edition: Posthumous, printed ca. 1812; indications of possible posthumous rework (no contemporary impressions noted in Hind); impressions of this print were published in the first and second editions of Pisa Illustrata, Pisa, 1787-93 and Livorno, 1812, respectively

Bibliography: Hind A.I-59 (vol. 1, p. 49), plate 55; Passavant 102 (vol. 5, p. 43); National Gallery of Art, Early Italian Engraving, cat. 10; Richard S. Field, ed., A Census of Fifteenth-century Prints in Public Collections of the United States and Canada (New Haven, CT: Print Council of America, 1995).

Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1944

Accession Number: 1944.D1.16

Keywords Click a term to view the records with the same keyword

This object has the following keywords:

Dante Alighieri*, death, hell*, Inferno

Dante Alighieri - LC n 78095495: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
death
hell - Place or state of extreme or eternal suffering, usually inflicted as punishment upon the wicked or the nonbelieving. [October 1990 descriptor added.]
Inferno

Dimensions

plate Dimensions: 225 x 283 mm (8.9 x 11.1 in.)

DAC Downloadable Open Access Image

Please see the DAC Open Access Images Policy and ReadMe PDF. This policy is similar to the concise No Known Copyright statement at RightsStatements.org.

To download an image, control-click or right-click on a link below, then select "Download," "Save Link," or a similar choice in your web browser.

DAC Open Access Image: JPEG, < 2 MB (Help)

DAC Open Access Image: TIFF, ~20-40 MB (Help)

Please use this image credit line:
Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: M. Johnston) .

Credit Caption

Anonymous, . The Inferno According to Dante, ca. 1460-1480 (printed ca. 1812). Engraving on thin laid paper. plate : 225 x 283 mm (8.9 x 11.1 in.). Sheet : 230 x 288 mm (9.1 x 11.3 in.). DAC accession number 1944.D1.16. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1944. Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: M. Johnston) .

Your search criteria: Keyword is "GXLA".

View current selection of records as:

LIDO XML

by Artist (3)

by Century (3)

Object Results

The Inferno According to Dante