The Goddess of Fortune
(1824-1827)
illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno VII, 25-96)

William BLAKE

Medium: pencil, black chalk, watercolour and ink
Measurements: 52.7 × 37.3 cm (image and sheet)
Place/s of Execution: London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné: Butlin 812.16; Butlin & Gott 7
Inscription: inscribed in pencil (in image) c.: Celestial Globe (partly erased)
inscribed in pencil (in image) c.: Terrestial Globe (partly erased)
inscribed in pencil (in image) c.: The hole of a Shithouse / The Goddess Fortune is the devils Servant ready to Kiss any ones Arse
inscribed in pen and ink l.r.: HELL Canto 7
inscribed in pencil l.r.: Hell (…illeg.)
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.r.: 55
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.c.: No 19 next at p 80
inscribed in pencil on reverse c.r. edge: HELL Canto 12
Accession Number: 993-3
Department: International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location: Not on display
Subjects (general): Literary and Text Religion and Mythology
Subjects (specific): clouds Divine Comedy, The (narrative poem, Dante, ca. 1308-1321) goddesses nudes (representations) sky
Movements: Romanticism (modern European styles )

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