The Melbourne Dante illustrations
By: by William Blake.
Contributors: Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria
Published: 1967
Place of publication: [Melbourne, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Blake, William, -- 1757-1827.; Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321. -- Illustrations; National Gallery of Victoria -- Catalogs
Genres: Illustrations
Notes: The 36 illustrations to the Divine Comedy now in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and illustrated here were part of a set of 102 drawings which John Linnell commissioned from Blake in 1824. The verses from the Divine Comedy quoted under the illustrations are taken from Corey's translation (1814), which was used by Blake.