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Artist
- Name:
- Dargent, Yan'
- Dates:
- 1824-1899
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- 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
An eviscerated man stands showing his wound to two others as more victims lament around them and a demon keeps torturing people in the background.
This picture illustrates the following passage:
A cask by losing centre-piece or cant
Was never shattered so, as I saw one
Rent from the chin to where one breaketh wind.
(Inferno, Canto XXVIII. Translation: Henry W. Longfellow.)
The caption reads in the original French: Il était fendu depuis le menton jusqu’au fond des entrailles.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, black & white, eerie, supernatural, The divine comedy, torture