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Artist
- Name:
- Dargent, Yan'
- Dates:
- 1824-1899
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Marichal
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- La divine comédie
- Author(s):
- Alighieri, Dante
- Publisher:
- Paris: Garnier Frères, 1870
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
Dante and Virgil ride on the back of Geryon depicted as an old and gigantic winged monster with a snake-like tail and paws of a lion. This picture illustrates the following passage:
…And said: “Now, Geryon, bestir thyself;
The circles large, and the descent be little;
Think of the novel burden which thou hast.”
(Inferno, Canto XVII)
The caption reads in the original French: Et aussitôt que je fus placé, il dit : ‘Géryon, tu peux partir.’
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, black & white, flying, monster, supernatural, The divine comedy
