Doré, Paul Gustave Louis Christophe

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French artist, notable for his literary illustrations. Working mainly as an engraver of often large wood engravings he was commissioned to depict scenes from books by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton (“Paradise Lost”) and Dante’s “Inferno” and "Vision of purgatory & paradise". Having come to the attention of British publishers, he illustrated the works of Lord Byron (1853), and a new illustrated English Bible. Other notable works include illustrations for Cervantes's “Don Quixote”, and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven". He also contributed to "The Illustrated London News".

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