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Altogether four printings have been done, two while the plates belonged to the Linnell family and two while they belonged to Lessing J. Rosenwald. In a ‘List of John Linnell Senior's Letters and Papers’ (in the Ivimy Collection) Linnell's son John Linnell Jr wrote that, following a few proofs taken by Blake himself, his father had ‘had India proofs taken (all disposed of)’; the accounts and day books of Dickson & Ross show that this was in 1838. 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India Paper./—/ PLATE I./ ... and like a corse fell to the ground./ HELL; Canto v.line 137. / PLATE II./....seiz'd on his arm, / And mangled bore away the sinewy part. / HELL; Canto xxii. line 70. / PLATE III./ .... so turn'd / His talons on his comrade. / HELL; Canto xxii. line 135./ PLATE IV. / ...lo! a serpent with six feet / Springs forth on one, / HELL; Canto xxv. line 45./ PLATE V. / He ey'd the serpent and the serpent him. / HELL; Canto xxv. line 82. / PLATE VI. /... Then two I mark'd, that sat Propp'd gainst each other, /HELL; Canto xxix, line 71. / PLATE VII./ ‘Wherefore dost bruise me?’ weeping he / exclaim'd. /HELL; Canto xxxii.line 79. / CARY'S DANTE.\n<br/></p>\n<p>The first record of Blake working on the engravings comes in a letter by him to Linnell of 2 July 1826, in which he wrote that he was coming to stay with him in Hampstead bringing, ‘besides our necessary change of apparel, Only My Book of Drawings from Dante & one Plate shut up in the Book’. 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Of what seem to be Blake's original proofs there is a complete set of one <a class=\"glossarylinktopopup\" data-gtm-destination=\"article-page\" data-gtm-name=\"body_text_link\" href=\"http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/proof\" title=\"Glossary definition for 'Proof'\"><span>proof</span></a> for each <a class=\"glossarylinktopopup\" data-gtm-destination=\"article-page\" data-gtm-name=\"body_text_link\" href=\"http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition\" title=\"Glossary definition for 'Composition'\"><span>composition</span></a> in the British Museum and individual proofs elsewhere. 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India Paper./—/ PLATE I./ ... and like a corse fell to the ground./ HELL; Canto v.line 137. / PLATE II./....seiz'd on his arm, / And mangled bore away the sinewy part. / HELL; Canto xxii. line 70. / PLATE III./ .... so turn'd / His talons on his comrade. / HELL; Canto xxii. line 135./ PLATE IV. / ...lo! a serpent with six feet / Springs forth on one, / HELL; Canto xxv. line 45./ PLATE V. / He ey'd the serpent and the serpent him. / HELL; Canto xxv. line 82. / PLATE VI. /... Then two I mark'd, that sat Propp'd gainst each other, /HELL; Canto xxix, line 71. / PLATE VII./ ‘Wherefore dost bruise me?’ weeping he / exclaim'd. /HELL; Canto xxxii.line 79. / CARY'S DANTE.\n<br/></p>\n<p>The first record of Blake working on the engravings comes in a letter by him to Linnell of 2 July 1826, in which he wrote that he was coming to stay with him in Hampstead bringing, ‘besides our necessary change of apparel, Only My Book of Drawings from Dante & one Plate shut up in the Book’. On 25 April 1827 Blake wrote to Linnell to say that ‘I have Proved the Six Plates, & reduced the Fighting devils for the Copper’. Blake's death on 12 August 1827 prevented any further work on the engravings, and ‘The Baffled Devils Fighting’ is noticeably incomplete; Blake might, of course, have intended to work further on the other plates as well.\n<br/>\n<br/>These engravings were formerly inventoried as nos.3371 i–viii.\n<br/>\n<br/><span>A00007</span> <b>The Baffled Devils Fighting</b>\n<br/>\n<br/>Engraving 242×334 (9 1/2×13 3/16); platemark 280×357 (11×14)\n<br/>EXHIBITED Tate Gallery 1978 (326, repr.)\n<br/></p>\n<p><i>Inferno</i> XXII, 133–140. After Ciampolo's escape the devils Alichino and Calabrina fall to fighting each other while their companions watch from the shore; Dante and Virgil retire in the distance. 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Of what seem to be Blake's original proofs there is a complete set of one <a class=\"glossarylinktopopup\" data-gtm-destination=\"article-page\" data-gtm-name=\"body_text_link\" href=\"http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/proof\" title=\"Glossary definition for 'Proof'\"><span>proof</span></a> for each <a class=\"glossarylinktopopup\" data-gtm-destination=\"article-page\" data-gtm-name=\"body_text_link\" href=\"http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition\" title=\"Glossary definition for 'Composition'\"><span>composition</span></a> in the British Museum and individual proofs elsewhere. The plates have passed, with the Rosenwald Collection, to the National Gallery of Art, Washington.\n<br/>\n<br/>The subject of each <a class=\"glossarylinktopopup\" data-gtm-destination=\"article-page\" data-gtm-name=\"body_text_link\" href=\"http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving\" title=\"Glossary definition for 'Engraving'\"><span>engraving</span></a> was identified on a label pasted to the cover of the 1838 issue that reads as follows:\n<br/></p>\n<p>BLAKE'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF DANTE. /<i>Seven Plates, designed and engraved by</i> W. BLAKE, <i>Author of ‘Illustrations of / the Book of Job,’ &c. &c.</i> /Price £2.2s. India Paper./—/ PLATE I./ ... and like a corse fell to the ground./ HELL; Canto v.line 137. / PLATE II./....seiz'd on his arm, / And mangled bore away the sinewy part. / HELL; Canto xxii. line 70. / PLATE III./ .... so turn'd / His talons on his comrade. / HELL; Canto xxii. line 135./ PLATE IV. / ...lo! a serpent with six feet / Springs forth on one, / HELL; Canto xxv. line 45./ PLATE V. / He ey'd the serpent and the serpent him. / HELL; Canto xxv. line 82. / PLATE VI. /... Then two I mark'd, that sat Propp'd gainst each other, /HELL; Canto xxix, line 71. / PLATE VII./ ‘Wherefore dost bruise me?’ weeping he / exclaim'd. /HELL; Canto xxxii.line 79. / CARY'S DANTE.\n<br/></p>\n<p>The first record of Blake working on the engravings comes in a letter by him to Linnell of 2 July 1826, in which he wrote that he was coming to stay with him in Hampstead bringing, ‘besides our necessary change of apparel, Only My Book of Drawings from Dante & one Plate shut up in the Book’. On 25 April 1827 Blake wrote to Linnell to say that ‘I have Proved the Six Plates, & reduced the Fighting devils for the Copper’. Blake's death on 12 August 1827 prevented any further work on the engravings, and ‘The Baffled Devils Fighting’ is noticeably incomplete; Blake might, of course, have intended to work further on the other plates as well.\n<br/>\n<br/>These engravings were formerly inventoried as nos.3371 i–viii.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><span>A00010</span> <b>The Pit of Disease: The Falsifiers</b>\n<br/>\n<br/>Engravings 243×340 (9 1/4×13 3/8); platemark 276×353 (10 7/8×13 7/8)</p>\n<p><i>Inferno</i> XXIX, 46–84 and XXX, 49–99. 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Altogether four printings have been done, two while the plates belonged to the Linnell family and two while they belonged to Lessing J. Rosenwald. In a ‘List of John Linnell Senior's Letters and Papers’ (in the Ivimy Collection) Linnell's son John Linnell Jr wrote that, following a few proofs taken by Blake himself, his father had ‘had India proofs taken (all disposed of)’; the accounts and day books of Dickson & Ross show that this was in 1838. 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Of what seem to be Blake's original proofs there is a complete set of one <a class=\"glossarylinktopopup\" data-gtm-destination=\"article-page\" data-gtm-name=\"body_text_link\" href=\"http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/proof\" title=\"Glossary definition for 'Proof'\"><span>proof</span></a> for each <a class=\"glossarylinktopopup\" data-gtm-destination=\"article-page\" data-gtm-name=\"body_text_link\" href=\"http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition\" title=\"Glossary definition for 'Composition'\"><span>composition</span></a> in the British Museum and individual proofs elsewhere. 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