File:Blake Dante Hell IX.jpg

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William Blake: English: The Angel at the Gate of Dis   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
William Blake  (1757–1827)  wikidata:Q41513 s:en:Author:William Blake q:en:William Blake
 
William Blake
Alternative names
W. Blake; Uil'iam Bleik; Blake
Description English-British painter, poet, theologian, collector, printmaker and illustrator
Date of birth/death 28 November 1757 Edit this at Wikidata 12 August 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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London; Felpham Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q41513
Title
English: The Angel at the Gate of Dis
Date between 1824 and 1827
date QS:P571,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1827-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium pen and watercolour over pencil and black chalk (NGV 10)
institution QS:P195,Q1464509
Notes
English: Inferno IX, 36-60 and 88-90. The Heavenly Messenger or Angel has now arrived at the Gate of Dis which is guarded by the three hellish Furies; they call upon the Gorgon Medusa to come and turn the Angel into stone. Virgil covers Dante's eyes so that he shall not share the same fate.
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Source/Photographer Felton Bequest, 1920

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current08:29, 28 September 2006Thumbnail for version as of 08:29, 28 September 2006400 × 283 (29 KB)Meladina (talk | contribs)BLAKE, William (b. 1757, London, d. 1827, London) The Angel at the Gate of Dis 1824-27 pen and watercolour over pencil and black chalk (NGV 10) Felton Bequest, 1920 995-3 National Gallery of Victoria Inferno IX, 36-60 and 88-90. The Heavenly Messeng

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