John Dickson Batten Illustrations for Dante's Inferno

by Peter Hainsworth

The forty-five illustrations for Dante's Inferno by John Dickson Batten (1860-1932) are perhaps the greatest achievement of an undeservedly forgotten artist. They were commissioned in the 1890s by George Musgrave (1855-1932) to accompany the second edition of his idiosyncratic translation of the Inferno, which finally appeared in 1933, a year after the deaths of both men. Musgrave left the illustrations to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1916156665
• ISBN13: 9781916156661
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Panarc International Ltd
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"