Art, literature & history
The Circle of the Traitors; Dante's Foot Striking Bocca degli Abbate
1827
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 33.8 × 50.7 cm (13 5/16 × 19 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.5536
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Blake. The Circle of the Traitors; Dante's Foot Striking Bocca degli Abbate. 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_Traitors;_Dante%27s_Foot_Striking_Bocca_degli_Abbate,_1827,_NGA_8460.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 Traitors; Dante's Foot Striking Bocca degli Abbate — William Blake. 1827.
Medium: engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 33.8 × 50.7 cm (13 5/16 × 19 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.5536. Rosenwald Collection.
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.