Canto XXIV/1: Fortune & Justice 

Silkscreen page proof approved by the artist and signed / initialled by him, taken from the original Talford Press edition of 185, printed on 100% rag, acid-free Inveresk (Somerset) paper

page size 39.5 x 31 cm

1979 – 1983

The mention of both snakes and ladders in this Canto and the discussion of transitory things at the mercy of chance and change are figured here by the board game in which the metaphorical snakes of retribution greatly outnumber ladders.