The Doré Gallery

His 120 Greatest Illustrations

Gustave Doré, Carol Belanger Grafton

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9780486135823
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Artist Monographs

This superb compilation showcases the art of Gustave Doré, one of the nineteenth century's most prolific and successful book illustrators. Brimming with stunning images created to accompany the world's greatest literature, this volume compiles the very finest and most famous plates from Doré's work.
Scores of magnificent, finely wrought engravings feature such dramatic and powerful scenes as Don Quixote tilting at windmills, Christ driving the money-changers from the temple, Moses destroying the tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments, and Charon rowing his ferry to the gates of Hell. Sources include immortal stories ranging from Milton's Paradise Lost and Dante's Divine Comedy to Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Poe's "The Raven," and more than a dozen other books.
For graphic artists and designers, this collection will provide an outstanding assortment of royalty-free images. For lovers of art and literature, these inspired plates will provide the definitive imagery of a host of literary classics.

The Holy Bible

THE FORMATION OF EVE

She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man ... (Genesis 2: 23).

THE DELUGE

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark . . . (Genesis 7: 23).

THE DOVE SENT FORTH FROM THE ARK

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth . . . (Genesis 8: 11).

MOSES BREAKING THE TABLES OF THE LAW

And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them . . . (Exodus 32: 19).

SAMSON AND DELILAH

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words . . . he told her ... There hath not come a rasor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me ... (Judges 16: 16, 17).

DEATH OF SAMSON

So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life . . . (Judges 16: 30).

DAVID AND GOLIATH

And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his Forehead . . . David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword . . . and slew him . . . (I Samuel 17: 49, 51).

ELIJAH TAKEN UP TO HEAVEN IN A CHARIOT OF FIRE

Behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more . . . (II Kings 2: 11, 12).

THE VISION OF THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES

And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest ... (Ezekiel 37: 3).

DANIEL IN THE DEN OF LIONS

My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me . . . (Daniel 6: 22).

THE DESTRUCTION OF LEVIATHAN

In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea . . . (Isaiah 27: 1).

JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES

And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might, and she took away his head from him . . . (Judith 13: 8).

THE WISE MEN GUIDED BY THE STAR

And, lo,...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Publisher’s Note
• Table of Contents
• 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