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John Flaxman

147 works

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Pencil sketch of a reclining child beside a dog on grass, with tree branches overhead.

Figures

c. 1817

Line engraving of a couple embracing in a room while a figure peeks from a doorway, from Flaxman's 1804 Dante illustrations.

Dantes Hölle. Inferno V, "La bocca mi baciò tutto tremante"

1804

Line engraving of nude figures crawling on a shaded slope beneath two laurel-crowned figures on a ledge, with Italian caption

Dantes Hölle. Inferno XXIX, "Qual sovra ´l ventre, e quale sovra le spalle / L´un de l´altro giacea, e qual carpone /…

1804

Engraved illustration of a winged three-faced demon emerging from ice, from John Flaxman's 1804 Dante's Inferno series.

Dantes Hölle. Inferno XXXIV, "Lo ´mperador del doloroso regno / Da mezzo ´l petto uscia fuore de la ghiaccia."

1804

Line engraving of Dante and Virgil standing above frozen heads in Dante's Inferno, Canto XXXII, by John Flaxman, 1804.

Dantes Hölle. Inferno XXXII, "Fa si che tu non calchi con le piante / Le teste die fratei miseri lassi."

1804

Line engraving of two reclining figures, one older man leaning over another, against a hatched arched background, from Flaxma

Dantes Hölle. Inferno XXXIII, "...io mi diedi / Già cieco a brancolar sovra ciascuno."

1804