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Lucifer

Lucifer
(1824-1827)
illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno XXXIV, 10-81)

Medium
pen and ink and watercolour over pencil and black chalk
Measurements
52.7 × 37.2 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Butlin 812.69; Butlin & Gott 28
Inscription
inscribed in pen and ink l.r.: HELL / Canto 34
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.r.: 66
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.r.: N 33 next at p 51
inscribed in pencil on reverse c.: N 33 next at p 51 (erased)
inscribed in pencil on reverse r. edge: Hell Canto 21
Accession Number
1013-3
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)
damned (people) Divine Comedy, The (narrative poem, Dante, ca. 1308-1321) hell (doctrinal concept) ice (water by form) purgatory Satan (Abrahamic religions character) souls wings (animal components)
Movements
Romanticism (modern European styles )