| Method | Lithograph |
| Artist | Antoine Alphée Piaud after Gustave Doré |
| Published | London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin; And 596, Broadway, New York. c.1870. |
| Dimensions | Image 246 x 197 mm, Sheet 368 x 288 mm |
| Notes |
From The Doré Gallery; a work containing two hundred and fifty engravings illustrating subjects from sources such as The Bible, Paradise Lost, Dante's Inferno, Don Quixote and Fontaine's Fables. An illustration from Milton's Paradise Lost. Lines 327-328 state: "Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro. " Paul Gustave Doré (1832 -1883) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Doré was born in Strasbourg and began work as a literary illustrator in Paris; winning commissions to depict scenes from texts by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton and Dante. This was followed by work for British publishers. Amongst these commissions, Doré was charged with the task of producing a new illustrated English Bible. The English Bible, published in 1866, was a great success. Playing upon this popularity, Doré had a major exhibition of his work in London in 1867; a show which subsequently laid the foundations for the Doré Gallery in Bond Street. Antoine Alphée Piaud (1837 - 1852; active c.) was a French copyist who was especially skilled in wood-engraving. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £20.00 |
| Stock ID | 29215 |