Dante: L'enfer, Chant XXI, Ongles sales (Dante's Inferno, Canto XXI, Nasty Claws)

1963

Dating: Exact year
Held at: National Gallery of Art
Medium: hand printed wood engraving on Japanese paper
Dimensions: image: 50.1 × 40 cm (19 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.) sheet: 59 × 48.7 cm (23 1/4 × 19 3/16 in.)
Collection no.: 1968.22.6
Attribution: By the artist

About this artwork

Dante: L'enfer, Chant XXI, Ongles sales (Dante's Inferno, Canto XXI, Nasty Claws) — Gy Szabo Bela. 1963.

Medium: hand printed wood engraving on Japanese paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 50.1 × 40 cm (19 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.) sheet: 59 × 48.7 cm (23 1/4 × 19 3/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1968.22.6. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Le Bovit.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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