Scene from the Inferno (canto IX)

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash

Dimensions

overall: 25.8 x 20.4 cm (10 3/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Julius S. Held Collection

Accession Number

1985.1.31

Artists / Makers

William Etty (artist) British, 1787 - 1849

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in black ink: Inferno Canto IX; lower center in graphite: "Tres furie infernal di sangue tinte / che membra femmine aveano ed atto,"; upper left verso: Ref: (10); uRv//in graphite: 44 / W / L

Provenance

Julius S. Held [1905-2002], by 1970; gift 1985 to NGA.

Associated Names

Held, Julius S., Professor

Exhibition History

1970: Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Notre Dame, IN; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH; and Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1970, no. 10, repro.

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