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William Blake

The Circle of the Falsifiers: Dante and Virgil Covering their Noses because of the st, 1827

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series Title

Dante's "Divine Comedy": pl.6 ("Inferno," canto XXIX)

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

plate: 27.6 × 35.6 cm (10 7/8 × 14 in.)

sheet: 34.7 × 50.2 cm (13 11/16 × 19 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bindman 1978, no. 652

Accession Number

1943.3.5535

Artists / Makers

William Blake (artist) British, 1757 - 1827

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Exhibition History

1948: Los Angeles County Museum, 1948.

1957: The Art of William Blake, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1957.

1961: Blake, New Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1961.

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

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

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

Bibliography

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

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