Blake’s Illustrations of Dante. Plate 1: “The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca”.
1954. US: 1954. Large folio, fine, clear uniform impression on hand-made paper with no watermark, inscribed in pencil by Lessing Rosenwald (see below). § The best of Blake's illustrations of Dante, often called the “Whirlwind of lovers”. It depicts a scene from the fifth canto of The Inferno in which..... More