The Inferno, after the Fresco in the Camposanto of Pisa

c. 1480/1500

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.5 × 28.8 cm (8 7/8 × 11 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.3 × 32.2 cm (9 15/16 × 12 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.184

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 1, p.49, no. 59

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge; purchased 1963 by Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Masters of Etching and Engraving from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, 1966, no. 39.

  • East-West in Art, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN, 1966.

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C..; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1973-1974, no. 68.

1975

  • The Inspired Copy: Artists Look at Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975, no. 3.

2023

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

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973

  • Levenson et al. 1973, no.10.

Wikidata ID

Q65507069

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