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The Circle of the Falsifiers: Dante and Virgil Covering their Noses because of the st
1827
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 39.3 × 53.9 cm (15 1/2 × 21 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1941.1.223
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Blake. The Circle of the Falsifiers: Dante and Virgil Covering their Noses because of the st. 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_Falsifiers_-_Dante_and_Virgil_Covering_their_Noses_because_of_the_st,_1827,_NGA_802.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 Falsifiers: Dante and Virgil Covering their Noses because of the st — William Blake. 1827.
Medium: engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 39.3 × 53.9 cm (15 1/2 × 21 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1941.1.223. 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.