The Dore Gallery: His 120 Greatest Illustrations PDF
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Secure he stands, and fearless gazes round, Where arrows fall and corpses strew the ground. The Wandering Jew (frontispiece) Copyright Copyright © 1998 by Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions. Bibliographical Note The Doré Gallery: His 120 Greatest Illustrations is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1998. DOVER Pictorial Archive SERIES This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Permissions Department, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.) However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service, whether it be in a book or in any other design resource, is strictly prohibited. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Doré, Gustave, 1832–1883. The Doré Gallery : his 120 greatest illustrations / Gustave Doré. p. cm.—(Dover pictorial archive series) 9780486135823 1. Doré, Gustave, 1832—1883—Themes, motives. I. Title. II. Series. NE650.D646A4 1998 769.92—dc21 98-7559 CIP Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501 Publisher’s Note A prolific artist famous for his wood-engraved book illustrations, Gustave Doré was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1832. The second son of a civil engineer, Doré had an excellent visual memory for street scenes and people. He first began to draw as a young child, and exhibited some sketches at the Paris Salon when he was fifteen. That same year, Doré contributed lithographic caricatures to Charles Philipon’s Journal pour rire. After his father’s death, the seventeen- year-old Doré supported his mother and brothers as a productive illustrator and journalist. His successful Rabelais illustrations, first published in 1854, were responsible for his sudden rise to fame and increased public demand for more of his illustrations. Captivated by the thought of illustrating all the great works of literature, Doré set out to do just that. His efforts were astounding; he employed more than forty engravers to help him accomplish this tremendous undertaking. Drawing designs on the woodblocks directly, Doré executed thousands of engravings, each one a splendid example of his skill and imagination. He frequently employed longtime associates H. Pisan, Pannemaker, and Jonnard as his principal engravers. His copious works enjoyed worldwide sales. The plates included here were compiled from some of the following Doré books: Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1863), Milton’s Paradise Lost (1866), The Holy Bible (1866), Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (1867–68), Michaud’s History of the Crusades (1877), and a dozen others. Cultivating a wide following for his books, Doré had a major impact on nineteenth-century art through his expansive endeavors. Gustave Doré died in Paris in 1883. Spanning a period of nearly thirty years (from 1854 to 1883), this superb collection contains 120 of Doré’s greatest illustrations. Executed with remarkable precision and attention to detail, the illustrations reproduced here were selected from seventeen of Doré’s most successful books. These books comprise less than one-third of his entire oeuvre of published works. Doré’s extraordinary talent for depicting dramatic and fantastic scenes is apparent in every literary classic that he illustrated. The utter magnificence of these wood engravings continues to captivate art lovers everywhere. Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Publisher’s Note Rabelais The Wandering Jew Perrault’s Fairy Tales Adventures of Baron Munchausen Don Quixote Atala Lengend of Croquemitaine The Holy Bible Paradise Lost Fables of La Fontaine Idylls of the King—Enid Idylls of the King—Vivien Idylls of the King—Elaine Idylls of the King—Guinevere The Divine Comedy London: A Pilgrimage The Rime of the Ancient Mariner History of the Crusades Orlando Furioso The Raven Rabelais
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