Book Title: Dante's Inferno; Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. from the original of Dante Alighieri, and illustrated with the designs of M. Gustave Doré.

Author: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

Image Title: Fraud

Description: We are afforded a bird’s eye view of Dante and Virgil, who are dwarfed by the landscape which slopes sharply into the next area of Inferno. The foreground of the engraving is occupied by the serpentine Geryon, a monster from Classical myth whom Dante has altered into the personification of Fraud and guardian of the eighth circle. He appears here as a great, reptilian beast with wings, a shaggy torso, and a human head. The engravers, Ad Ligny (active 1855-1876) and Stéphane Pannemaker (1847-1930), have placed their signature at the bottom right.

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