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The Rest on the Mountain Leading to Purgatory 1824-27 pen, ink and watercolour over black chalk and pencil (NGV 29) Felton Bequest, 1920 1014-3 National Gallery of Victoria Purgatorio IV, 46-57. The poets are climbing the steep path that encircles the mountain leading to Purgatory. Now they sit down to rest on a terrace, looking down over the sea. In the text Dante wonders at the direction of the sun but Blake shows it obscured by mist or clouds. The colouring of this design is cooler than in the illustrations to the Inferno, being dominated by pinks and greens. |