Dante and Virgil in Hell

1588-1629

Aegidius Sadeler II

Artist, Flemish, c. 1570 - 1629

Jacopo Ligozzi

Artist After, Italian, 1547 - 1627

Aegidius Sadeler II, after Jacopo Ligozzi

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving mounted on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Stephen and Claudine Ostrow

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 20.3 × 27.5 cm (8 × 10 13/16 in.)
    mount: 23 × 27.9 cm (9 1/16 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.184.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 389

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Stephen and Claudine Ostrow, Silver Spring, MD; gift to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, no. 389 CHECK

Inscriptions

recto: on mount, at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: Sadeler - after Ligozzi; verso: at upper right, in graphite, in later hand: 63-335; at bottom, in blue ink, in later hand: Aegidi Sadeler (?) / Dante + Virgil entering hell; After Jacopo Ligozzi 1547-1626 / of his three drawings of the Divine Comedy / at Christ Church, Oxford / also pl. 44 in Triumph of Mannerism / + Vo[?] II, p. 422

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