The Legend of the Wandering Jew - Rare Book Engraved by G. Doré - 1857

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Gustave Doré
The Legend of the Wandering Jew - Rare Book Engraved by G. Doré - 1857
1857

About the Item

The Legend of the Wandering Jew is an original modern rare book written by Pierre Dupont (Lyon, April 23, 1821 - July 25, 1870) and illustrated by Gustave Doré (Strasbourg, 1832 – 23 January 1883) in 1857. Published by Addey & co., London. Original First English Edition. Format: Elephant folio. The book includes 83 pages with an Original publisher’s binding and Twelve full pages Plates. Mint conditions. Gustave Doré in 1868. Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (Strasbourg, 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who worked primarily with wood-engraving. In 1853 Doré was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron. This commission was followed by additional work for British publishers, including a new illustrated Bible. In 1856 he produced 12 folio-size illustrations of The Legend of The Wandering Jew, which propagated longstanding antisemitic views of the time, for a short poem which Pierre-Jean de Béranger had derived from a novel of Eugène Sue of 1845. In the 1860s he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote, and his depictions of the knight and his squire, Sancho Panza, became so famous that they influenced subsequent readers, artists, and stage and film directors' ideas of the physical "look" of the two characters. Doré also illustrated an oversized edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", an endeavor that earned him 30,000 francs from publisher Harper & Brothers in 1883. Doré's later work included illustrations for new editions of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Milton's Paradise Lost, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, The Works of Thomas Hood, and The Divine Comedy. Doré's work also appeared in the weekly newspaper The Illustrated London News. Pierre Dupont (Lyon, April 23, 1821 - July 25, 1870). He was a French poet. He was awarded by the Académie française for a poem written at a young age, Les deux anges. He wrote numerous socialist-inspired songs, which were often performed in public by himself. For his ideology opposed to the imperial regime of Napoleon III he was sentenced to seven long years of deportation (1851-1858). Once free he devoted himself to popular themes, oriented to the analysis of the peasant world.

Creator:
Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883, French)
Creation Year:
1857
Dimensions:
Height: 20.01 in (50.8 cm)Width: 15.04 in (38.2 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
Medium:
Paper
Movement & Style:
Modern
Period:
1850-1859
Condition:
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Gallery Location:
Roma, IT
Reference Number:
Seller: M-1185141stDibs: LU65037987462