The Circle of the Corrupt Officials; the Devils Tormenting Ciampolo. Inferno, canto XXII
1827, printed c. 1892
Medium
Hand-colored engraving on India paper, laid down on wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Image: 23.7 × 33.5 cm (9 3/8 × 13 1/4 in.); Plate: 27.6 × 35.6 cm (10 7/8 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 39.2 × 53.9 cm (15 7/16 × 21 1/4 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
2328
About the Artist
William Blake · 1757–1827
William Blake (1757–1827) stands as one of the most visionary and unconventional artists in British history, a poet-painter-printmaker whose mystical imagination and radical vision profoundly shaped the Romantic movement. Born in London's Soho district, Blake experienced visions from childhood—claiming to see angels in trees at age eight—and these spiritual encounters would guide his art throughou...