Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Wrathful Crowd the Stygian Marsh
Dante and Virgil stand on a rocky margin above a dense group of struggling bodies, with raised arms and tangled limbs emerging from the dark ground. Virgil identifies the souls overcome by anger as the travellers approach the Stygian lake. Doré concentrates their conflict into the lower half of the image, while the two observers remain comparatively still above it. The surrounding rock and shadow make the gathering seem confined rather than free to disperse. The printed caption connects the scene to the guide’s explanation. This plate visualises a moral arrangement in the poem and does not present anger as a condition proved to produce a particular afterlife.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Wrathful Crowd the Stygian Marsh" [editorial title]. In Dante's Inferno, Dante Alighieri. New Edition, undated supplied scan, undated edition, Thompson & Thomas. Source scan leaf 69. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/inferno-dore-62
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Full original plate and caption visually inspected. Editorial title; original scan tone and intrinsic damage retained. Sideways plates rotated in the Gallery derivative only.
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Gustave Doré (design). The Wrathful Crowd the Stygian Marsh. Dante's Inferno. Scan leaf 69. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/inferno-dore-62