Art Institute of Chicago
The Circle of the Falsifiers: Dante and Virgil Covering their Noses Because of the Stench. Inferno, canto XXIX
William Blake
- Date
- 1827, printed c. 1892
- Medium
- Hand-colored engraving on India paper, laid down on wove paper (chine collé)
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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