Title and date from item., Below title: In the collection of the Countess of Plymouth, Knole., Date of original painting, Count Ugolino and His Children in the Dungeon: 1770-1773., Represents a story from Dante's Inferno., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published 1834, by Hodgson, Boys & Graves, 6, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Ugolino, della Gherardesca, conte di Donoratico, -1289.
Subject (Topic):
Starvation, Imprisonment, Dungeons, Fathers, and Children
A scene from Dante's 'Divine Comedy' showing Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, Count of Donoratico (c. 1220-1289), an Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander and his sons and grandchildren imprisoned in a dungeon. After Reynolds
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, from that of the original painting by Reynolds., Signed by the artist in lower left corner., and Drawn after Sir Joshua Reynolds’s painting, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1773 and is currently in the National Trust Collection at Knole, Kent (accession no.: 129934).
Subject (Geographic):
Italian.
Subject (Name):
Ugolino, della Gherardesca, conte di Donoratico, -1289,
Subject (Topic):
Capture & imprisonment, Dungeons, Political prisoners, and Children
