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Artist
- Name:
- Dargent, Yan'
- Dates:
- 1824-1899
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Berveiller, Édouard
- 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
Two men are standing at the foot of an open tomb, out of which a dead rises with one arm outstretched from the fire burning inside.
This picture illustrates the following passage:
Upon a sudden issued forth this sound
From out one of the tombs; wherefore I pressed,
Fearing, a little nearer to my Leader.
(Inferno, Canto X. Translation: Henry W. Longfellow.)
The caption reads in the original French: Tout à coup d’un tombeau sortirent ces paroles…
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, black & white, death, eerie, supernatural, The divine comedy, tomb
