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Dore's Illustrations for Don Quixote A Selection of 190 Illustrations

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ISBN-10: 0486243001

ISBN-13: 9780486243009

Edition: 1982

Authors: Gustave Dor�

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Doré's sympathy to Cervantes' satire was so complete that, of numerous interpretations by many artists, his has become standard. Here are 190 wood-engraved plates, 120 full-page: charging the windmill, traversing Spanish plains, valleys, mountains, ghostly visions of dragons, knights, flaming lake. Marvelous detail, minutiae, accurate costumes, architecture, enchantment, pathos, humor. Captions.
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 11.34" wide x 11.81" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Paul Gustave Dor� (January 6, 1832 to January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Dor� worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving. In 1853, Dor� 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. A decade later, he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote, and his depictions of the knight and his squire, Sancho Panza, have become so famous that they have influenced subsequent readers, artists, and stage and film directors' ideas of the physical "look" of the two characters. He continued to illustrate books until…