Cacciaguida Greets Dante and Virgil
date: label: Date
content: 1790–1830
name: label: Artist
content: Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An elderly bearded man, half-nude, greets Dante and Virgil. This is Cacciaguida, Dante's great-grandfather. Dante wears a hood or Phrygian cap, while Virgil wears a laurel crown. Figures appear prostrate on the ground behind them.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1948-118-71
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on cream paper, laid down
label: Dimensions
content: 10.2 × 6.2 cm (4 × 2 7/16 in.)