Canto IX/1: Furies

 Lithograph 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

 The theatricality of the Furies' appearance is emphasised by the likening of the crenellations to footlights. This image derives from a minute original drawing. Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone represent, as well as an anti-Trinity, a parody of the three Graces and the three Celestial Ladies who have pity on Dante, as Virgil explains in Canto Two.