Art, literature & history
The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca
1827
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 39 × 54.6 cm (15 3/8 × 21 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1941.1.218
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Blake. The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca. William Blake; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Blake,_The_Circle_of_the_Lustful_-_Paolo_and_Francesca,_1827,_NGA_797.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca — William Blake. 1827.
Medium: engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 39 × 54.6 cm (15 3/8 × 21 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1941.1.218. Gift of W.G. Russell Allen.
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.