Gustave Doré’s Macabre Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1884)

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One of many busiest, most in-demand artists of the nineteenth cen­tu­ry, Gus­tave Doré made his identify illus­trat­ing works by such authors as Rabelais, Balzac, Mil­ton, and Dante. Within the 1860s, he cre­at­ed one of the crucial mem­o­rable and pop­u­lar illus­trat­ed edi­tions of Cer­vantes’ Don Quixote, whereas on the similar time com­plet­ing a set of engrav­ings…