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The Rest on the Mountain leading to Purgatory

The Rest on the Mountain leading to Purgatory
(1824-1827)
illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Purgatorio VI, 46-57)

Medium
pen and ink and watercolour over black chalk and pencil
Measurements
52.7 × 37.2 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Butlin 812.73; Butlin & Gott 29
Inscription
inscribed in pen and ink l.c.l.: P-g Canto 4
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.r.: 64
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.c.: N 31 next at p 67
inscribed in pencil on reverse c.: N 31 next at p 67 (erased)
inscribed in pencil on reverse r. edge: Hell Canto 20
Accession Number
1014-3
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)
cliffs damned (people) Divine Comedy, The (narrative poem, Dante, ca. 1308-1321) escarpments (landforms) hell (doctrinal concept) oceans purgatory souls
Movements
Romanticism (modern European styles )