The Circle of the Falsifiers: Dante and Virgil Covering their Noses Because of the Stench. Inferno, canto XXIX
1827, printed c. 1892
Hand-colored engraving on India paper, laid down on wove paper (chine collé)
24 × 33.8 cm (9.4 × 13.3 in)
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