The Bard Began, from Canto IV
Artist
Ronald Kowalke
(American, born 1936)
Date1970
Mediumetching and letterpress on white Rives BFK paper
Dimensions45.3 x 65.4 cm (plate); 55.4 x 75.5 cm (sheet)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Helen Sagoff Slosberg
Object number1971.72
Description'" Now let us to the blind world there beneath descend;" the bard began, all pale of look: "I go the first, and thou shalt follow next."' The accompanying fragments of text were taken from the English translation of Dante's Inferno by Henry Francis Clay.ProvenanceMrs. Helen Sagoff Slosberg, Boston, MA
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