Art, Symbol & Imagination
Virgil Confronts the Hooked Devils
Winged figures with long hooked weapons gather around an upright robed traveller on the edge of a dark hollow. Virgil approaches the devils while Dante initially remains sheltered behind the rock. Doré presses the armed group around the standing guide, turning the hooks into a network of lines that threatens to close over him. The passage concerns permission to cross the region of the boiling pitch. The caption and neighbouring text identify the negotiation; the engraving itself does not distinguish each named demon well enough to assign every visible face an individual identity.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Virgil Confronts the Hooked Devils" [editorial title]. In Dante's Inferno, Dante Alighieri. New Edition, undated supplied scan, undated edition, Thompson & Thomas. Source scan leaf 142. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/inferno-dore-135
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Full original plate and caption individually inspected; exact neighbouring canto read. Editorial title. Source tone and intrinsic damage retained; rotation applies only to Gallery derivatives.
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Gustave Doré (design). Virgil Confronts the Hooked Devils. Dante's Inferno. Scan leaf 142. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/inferno-dore-135