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The Pit, Canto XXII
The Pit, Canto XXII
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The Pit, Canto XXII

Artist (American, born 1936)
Date1970
Mediumetching and letter press on white RIves BFK paper
Dimensions45.6 x 65.4 cm (plate), 56 x 75.3 cm (sheet)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Helen Sagoff Slosberg
Object number1971.77
Description"To ease the pain, his back some sinner show'd, then hid more nimbly than the lightning-glance." 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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