Abstract
In his highly perceptive study, Blake's Illustrations to the Divine Comedy, Albert S. Roe is perplexed by the fact that the first design to the Paradiso, “Dante Adoring Christ,” is numbered “97.” Admittedly puzzled, Roe tentatively suggests that the design may have been “the ninety-seventh sheet as the pages were originally arranged,” or that the number may refer to a line of Cary's translation, which appeared in 1814 and was therefore accessible to Blake.1 I propose that this design was originally intended to be the ninety-seventh illustration to Blake's Jerusalem, his last major written work.
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