print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1857,0613.1141
- Title
- Object: The passage over the Styx to the city of Dis
- Description
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Dante and Virgil on the Styx, with several figures swimming around their boat and trying to climb into it; scene from Dante's Inferno; after a painting by Delacroix, although it is wrongly attributed to Scheffer in the inscription; cutting from unidentified English publication
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1830-1857
- Dimensions
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Height: 169 millimetres (image)
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Width: 217 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After a painting by Delacroix exhibited at the Salon in 1822; it is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (Inv. 3820).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Inferno
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1857,0613.1141
