Dante and Virgil in the Suicidal Wood (Inferno, Canto 13, verses 22-23)
John Flaxman
1792–93
Medium
Reed pen and black ink over graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 1/8 in. (19.1 x 25.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Scott & Fowles, 1918
Accession Number
18.141.1
Tags
Men
About the Artist
John Flaxman · 1755–1826
John Flaxman (1755–1826) was born in York, England, the son of John Flaxman Sr., a moulder and seller of plaster casts who ran a studio in London's Covent Garden. Largely self-taught amid his father's stock of classical casts, with minimal formal schooling due to childhood illness, Flaxman displayed prodigious talent early on. At age 12, he won a Society of Arts prize for a medallion; by 15, anoth...