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John Dickson Batten Illustrations for Dante's Inferno Gwen Adams The bestselling author of ThisThe forty five illustrations for Dante's Inferno by John Dickson Batten (1860 1932) are perhaps the greatest achievement of an undeservedly forgotten artist. They were commissioned in the 1890s by George Musgrave (1855 1932) to accompany the second edition of his idiosyncratic translation of the Inferno, which finally appeared in 1933, a year after the deaths of both men. Musgrave left the illustrations to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where they were