Weekly Wikipedia Find: Gustave Doré

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Gustave Doré was a badass engraver from the nineteenth century. So badass that H.P. Lovecraft praised him even, in prose: "There's something those fellows catch - beyond life - that they're able to make us catch for a second. Doré had it. Sime has it." (From "Pickman's Model"). Like most engravers, a lot of his subjects seem to be biblical (okay, by most I mean Blake; I was only thinking of Blake). Doré also illustrated some Poe, and Byron, as well as fairy tales and other non-biblical things.

The Wikipedia article is rather short, but it does contain a gallery.

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