Dante and the Eagle
Artist
Gustave Doré
(1832 Strasbourg, France - 1883 Paris, France)
Artist
Jean Gauchard
(1825 - 1872)
Dateca. 1868
Mediumink on paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (29.8 × 24.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrints & Printmaking
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of an anonymous donor
Object numberPC2019.47.1
DescriptionA page from Dante's Divine Comedy with the image of an eagle lifting a human into the sky. Below the image reads: "The both, I thought, the eagle and myself did burn; and so intense the imagined flames, that needs my sleep was broken off. Canto IX., lines 29-31."On View
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