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MerryBlooms

(11,769 posts) Mon Mar 21, 2016, 08:41 PM Mar 2016

Gustave Doré’s Splendid Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1884)

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One of the busiest, most in-demand artists of the 19th century, Gustave Doré made his name illustrating works by such authors as Rabelais, Balzac, Milton, and Dante. In the 1860s, he created one of the most memorable and popular illustrated editions of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, while at the same time completing a set of engravings for an 1866 English Bible. He probably could have stopped there and assured his place in posterity, but he would go on to illustrate a 1972 guide to London, a new edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and several more hugely popular works.

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Gustave Doré’s Splendid Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1884) (Original Post) MerryBlooms Mar 2016 OP

I have some engravings from that edition of the Bible. grasswire Mar 2016 #1

Oh gosh, how fortunate to own such treasures. MerryBlooms Mar 2016 #3

Note: I don't take books apart. :-) grasswire Mar 2016 #5

He has earned a place in posterity just for living from the 1860's to 1972. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2016 #2

I think that's a typo, since he passed in 1883. MerryBlooms Mar 2016 #4

grasswire

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1. I have some engravings from that edition of the Bible.

Reply to MerryBlooms (Original post)

Mon Mar 21, 2016, 08:45 PM

Mar 2016

And they are gorgeous.

Thanks for posting this.

MerryBlooms

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3. Oh gosh, how fortunate to own such treasures.

Reply to grasswire (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 21, 2016, 08:50 PM

Mar 2016

y/w

grasswire

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5. Note: I don't take books apart. :-)

Reply to MerryBlooms (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 21, 2016, 08:57 PM

Mar 2016

I acquired these in a folder of assorted engravings at a sale somewhere. I rescued them. I never take old books apart, but I sometimes buy them just to preserve the engravings from someone who might want to decoupage them on top of a coffee table or somethin'.

dixiegrrrrl

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2. He has earned a place in posterity just for living from the 1860's to 1972.

Reply to MerryBlooms (Original post)

Mon Mar 21, 2016, 08:47 PM

Mar 2016

but he would go on to illustrate a 1972 guide to London,

MerryBlooms

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4. I think that's a typo, since he passed in 1883.

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 21, 2016, 08:55 PM

Mar 2016

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