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Artist
- Name:
- Dargent, Yan'
- Dates:
- 1824-1899
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Duvivier
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- 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
A man is pulled out of the water by a demon with bat-like wings, who lifts him by the hair with a fork.
This picture illustrates the following passage:
and Graffiacan,
Who of the fiends was nearest, grappling seiz’d
His clotted locks, and dragg’d him sprawling up,
That he appear’d to me an otter.
(Inferno, Canto XXII. Translation: Henry Francis Cary.)
The caption reads in the original French: … Alors Graffiacane, qui était plus près de lui, l’accrocha par sa chevelure souillée de résine.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, black & white, devil, eerie, supernatural, The divine comedy, torture
