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Creator Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906, artist.
Title [Dante Alighieri] : Note: As the name of this celebrated poet is interwoven into the background work of this copy it was deemed superfluous of repetition underneath. / Kollner drawn. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1861]
Physical Description 1 drawing : ink ; 38 x 29 cm (15 x 11.5 in)
Description Ink-drawn portrait showing a right-profile, bust-portrait of the major Italian poet who wrote the long narrative poem "The Divine Comedy." Depicts the poet wearing a tunic, and on his head, a coife under a hood with a tippet that is also adorned with a laurel wreath. His eye is rendered statuary-like and without a pupil. The background is comprised of overlapping hatch marks. The portrait is possibly after the frontispiece portrait by Gustave Doré in his illustrated folio of the poet's work "Inferno" (1861).
Notes Title from manuscript note below image and partially supplied by cataloger.
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Biographical / historical note Augustus Kollner (1813-1906) a German-born and trained Philadelphia lithographer began to focus his career more on drawing and painting in the 1860s. In 1861 Kollner enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine arts life class and continued to take the class until at least 1867. Kollner also exhibited genre, historical, and landscape drawings at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1865 and 1868.
Subject Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Portraits.
Genre Ink drawings -- 18601870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Kollner [P.2017.8.23]
Accession number P.2017.8.23