The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca

1827

William Blake

Artist, British, 1757 - 1827

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 27.7 x 35.5 cm (10 7/8 x 14 in.)
    sheet: 43.7 x 59.9 cm (17 3/16 x 23 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.5395

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bindman 1978, no. 647

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1952

  • 100 Masterpieces of the Print, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1952, no cat.

1953

  • Flight, Fantasy, Faith, Fact: A Loan Exhibition Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered Flight, Dayton Art Institute, OH, 1953-1954, no. 110.

1957

  • The Art of William Blake, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1957.

1961

  • Blake, New Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1961, no cat.

1965

  • William Blake, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1965, no. 36, repro.

  • William Blake, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965.

1966

  • Prints 1800-1945, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; City Art Museum of St. Louis; and Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, 1966, no. 11, repro.

1970

  • William Blake's Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1970, no cat.

1989

  • Image and Word, Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD, 1989.

2023

  • Going through Hell: The Divine Dante, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

1978

  • Bindman, David. The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.

Wikidata ID

Q65026661

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