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Gustav Doré: Born
SourceThe twisted artist was born on January 6th, 1832. He was a french artist, printmaker, illustrator, and sculptor. He worked mostly with wood engraving. -
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Gustav Doré: Carving Cement
sourceAt the agfe of twelve, he began carving cement. And from i read, he's an art prodigy, so I'm asuming they were pretty good, even though he'd only just started. -
Gustave Doré: Caricaturist
SourceAt the age of fifteen he began working as a caricaturist for the French paper, Le Journal pour rire and due t this got commisioned to due depict scene s from books by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton and Dante. -
Gustave Dore: Lord Byron
SourceIn 1853, Gustave was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron.This commission was followed by additional work for British publishers, including a new illustrated English Bible. -
Gustave Dore: Short Poem Illustration
SourceIn 1856 he produced twelve folio-size illustrations of The Legend of The Wandering Jew for a short poem which Pierre-Jean de Ranger had derived from a novel of Eugène Sue of 1845. -
Gustave Dore: Novels (Part 1)
Gustave In the 1860s he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote. His depictions of the knight and his squire, Sancho Panza, have become so famous that they have influenced readers, artists,stage and film directors' ideas of the physical "look" of the two characters -
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Gustave Dore: Painting London
Sourcen 1869, Blanchard Jerrold suggested that they work together to produce a comprehensive portrait of London. Jerrold had obtained the idea from The Microcosm of London produced by Rudolph Ackermann, William Pyne, and Thomas Rowlandson in 1808. Doré signed a five-year contract that involved his staying in London for three months a year, and he received the vast sum of £10,000 a year for the project. -
Gustave Dore: Book Published
SourceThe completed book, London: A Pilgrimage, with 180 engravings, was published in 1872. It enjoyed popular success, but the work was disliked by many contemporary critics. -
Gustave Dore: Novels (part 2)
SourceDoré also illustrated an oversized edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", 1883. It was an endeavor that earned him 30,000 francs from publisher Harper & Brothers in 1883. -
Gustav Doré: Death
SourceDoré never married and he continued to live with his mother, illustrating books until his death in Paris following a short illness. The city's Père Lachaise Cemetery contains his grave.
