Frontispiece : Dante in his Study
Frontispiece : Dante in his Study
Silkscreen print, page proof approved by the artist and signed / initialled by him, taken from the original Talford Press edition of 185, printed on 100% rag, acid-free Inveresk (Somerset) paper
page size 39.5 x 31 cm
1979 – 1983
This is a 27-colour screenprint, an image based loosely on a painting equally loosely attributed to Signorelli and showing the traditional received image of Dante as a hatchet-faced ascetic, surrounded by the appurtenances of scholarship.