The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides

The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides, c. 1824–1827. William Blake, Tate. 372×527 mm.

The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides is a pencil, ink and watercolour on paper artwork by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake (1757–1827). It was completed between 1824 and 1827 and illustrates a passage from the Inferno of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321).[1]

It is part of a series which became the last set of watercolours Blake produced before his death in August 1827. The artwork is held in the Tate Gallery, London.