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Here to appreciate the works of Gustave Doré. And a bit of other shenanigans

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The Fall of the Rebel Angels - Paradise Lost
Breathtaking magic!

20.08.2025 13:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gustave Doré (1832-1883): Master of Imagination.
Possibly the best book of his works. Not so easy to get a copy of these now. If you have one, you have a treasure.

25.02.2025 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Stunning shot 😎🖖

14.07.2025 16:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This bald eagle was coming in hot. I mashed the shutter down and kept it down. This was one of the images. For #BlueSkyMonday. #photography #birds #🪶 #wildlife #wildlifephotography #baldeagle #EastCoastKin

14.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 7549    🔁 461    💬 214    📌 22
Etching style black and white illustration of the winged monster Geryon with the two characters, Dante and Virgil riding on its back

Etching style black and white illustration of the winged monster Geryon with the two characters, Dante and Virgil riding on its back

This illustration always fascinated & terrified me as a kid. A scene from Dante’s Divine Comedy. Canto XVII of Inferno. "New terror I conceived at the steep plunge." It took Gustave about 7 years to create all the illustrations for The Divine Comedy #GustaveDoré

12.06.2025 15:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Council of The Rats by Gustave Doré - 1868 High quality art reproductions, all printed in the UK. Established in 2019, we make carbon neutral, fine art prints to the highest possible standards. We use the latest software and industry leading…

The Council of The Rats by Gustave Doré - 1868 – Flashback Shop

01.03.2025 16:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Charon crosses the river Acheron - Gustave Dore by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble Charon crosses the river Acheron in Dante Alighieri's Inferno Canto 3, Gustave Dore And lo! toward us in a bark Comes on an old man hoary white with eld, Crying, "Woe to you wicked spirits!

1/4 A psychopomp is a being who is responsible for guiding souls to the land of the dead. The term is used more widely today to mean someone who acts as a spiritual guide between worlds.
🎨Gustave Dore redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FairytaleTuesday #art #decor #folklore #mythology #illustration

25.02.2025 14:45 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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#smallbeautieshour #becauseofClem #threadofgold

24.02.2025 21:34 — 👍 3467    🔁 520    💬 50    📌 24
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'Lambeth gas works' by Gustave Doré (1872)

21.02.2025 11:14 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Dante's Inferno, 1861, by Gustave Doré

23.02.2025 18:23 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Owl in giant tree hollow in dark wood, ruins in background, fungi at base of tree.

Owl in giant tree hollow in dark wood, ruins in background, fungi at base of tree.

Goodnight.
Les Souris et le Chat-Huant, The Mice and the Owl, Gustave Doré for The Fables of La Fontaine, 1867.

22.02.2025 20:12 — 👍 220    🔁 38    💬 6    📌 2
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Gustave Doré (1832-1883): Master of Imagination.
Possibly the best book of his works. Not so easy to get a copy of these now. If you have one, you have a treasure.

25.02.2025 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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“I'm sorry to have made a mere 100,000 drawings by the age 33”
Remarkable chap, and the Godfather of trolling.

25.02.2025 13:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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