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Currently not on display

William Blake

London, 1757 - London, 1827

Dante's <Divine Comedy>: The Circle of the Lustful

Date 1826-27
Materials and Techniques engraving and drypoint
Size(cm) 24.3 x 33.5 (plate); 27.6 x 35.3 (peper)
Standard ref. Bindman 647
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1995-0039

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 1996.

Exhibition History

1997
Resonating Love and Life: European Art from National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 12 April 1997 - 18 May 1997, cat. no. 77-1
2017
Fear in Painting, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 July 2017 - 18 September 2017, The Ueno Royal Museum, 7 October-17 December 2017, cat. no. 23, col. repr.
2021
National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y2_60 | T2_63

Bibliography

1980
Essick, R. N. William Blake Printmaker. Princeton, 1980, pp. 250-254.
1997
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 29-30 (April 1994-March 1996), 1997, List of New Acquisitions. pp. 39-40.
2017
Fear in painting (exh. cat.). Nakano, Kyoko. et al. [Tokyo], Sankei Shimbn, 2017, pp. 62-63, 241, cat. no. 23, col. repr.
2021
When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 96, 181, cat. no. Y2_60 | T2_63, col. repr.

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