WorkJohn Flaxman

“Compositions by John Flaxman, Sculptor, R.A., from the Divine Poem of Dante Alighieri”

Compositions by John Flaxman, Sculptor, R.A., from the Divine Poem of Dante Alighieri (engraved by Tommaso Piroli; first published Rome, 1793; London editions followed)

John Flaxman (1755–1826) · engraved by Tommaso Piroli; first published Rome, 1793; London editions followed

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Documented 1845

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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New-York Daily Tribune

“Italy. ? Cary's Dante” · July?August 1845

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“Tis pity that the designs of Flaxman are so poorly reproduced in this American book... The designs of Flaxman were really a noble comment upon Dante, and might help to interpret him...”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p106

Fuller discusses John Flaxman's designs illustrating Dante, as reproduced in the American edition of Henry Francis Cary's The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri.