Canto XXI/1: Wall of Devils

Silkscreen 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 selection of Devils, each freely improvised, range from the sinister to the humorously grotesque, thus reflecting the variety of reactions that these episodes and characters have evinced from readers through the ages: some have seen the activities of the Devils as a little tongue-in-cheek like the modern Gothic horror film, while others (like Ruskin) have seen in them an unambiguous representation of evil.