Dante and Virgil Escaping from the Devils (from Dante's "Divine Comedy"); verso: Sketch of rocks
1824-1827
Artists
Dimensions
52.3 × 36.9 cm (20 9/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by John Linnell, by 1830, sold through his sale [Christie's, London, March 15, 1918, as part of lot 148]; to Alec Martin for the National Art-Collections Fund, London. [Scott & Fowles, New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1921, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
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