Archive of the Limited Edition of Dante's Inferno: Canto IV/4 / Phillips, Tom., 1983
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Scope and Contents
IV/4 This image equates the allegorical leopard of Canto I, the first of the three beasts, with CARO (cf. Canto 1/2) and with the vices of the flesh, and serves to announce the beginning of the first section of Hell proper which is devoted to the sins of luxury. The 'high hopes' that Dante entertained once of the life of pleasure are indicated by an echo of the sun-cloaked hill. The leopard is once again referred to only by his coat so reminding the reader that the first section of Hell is reserved for the superficial sins of appetite and self-indulgence. The other major sections of Inferno are also prefaced by images of the appropriate animals; the sins of the lion (Canto XXVII) and the sins of the wolf (Cantos XVIII and XXXIV). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1983
Creator
- Phillips, Tom, 1937-2022 (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (29 prints (etching, silkscreen) in clamshell box (museum board, paper covered, lithograph)) ; prints 42 x 32 cm, in box 44 x 35 x 8 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
1904 shelf Phillips Dante Inferno Archive box 2
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: London, England : Talfourd Press. Signed by: TP (l.r.stages:1-6,14,15,17-24,28). Nationality of creator: British. General: Proof copy of print, number 2. General: Added by: BARB; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
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