PCT4278407: Sindbad the sailor (Sinbad) - tale of the thousand and one (1001) nights - illustration by Gustave Dore - Maxwell edition 1865 - First voyage: Sindbad, abandoned in the middle of the sea by his companions, reached an island and met in a cave the palefreniers of King Miihrage, Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4279477: The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (Quixotte - Quijote) by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616): the knight has the sad figure made cabrioles “” putting naked certain things that Sancho, in order not to see them, hasten to turn around, satisfied to be able to testify that his master is perfectly crazy”. Gustave Dore (1832- 1883)., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4265339: In the fourth circle of Hell, under which Pluto (Hades) presides, the Avares and the Prodigans carry and roll heavy burdens (rocks), colliding with anger. Engraving from The Hell by Dante Alighieri (the Divine Comedie) illustrated by Gustave Dore. French edition of 1861. “” Tutto l'oro ch 'e sotto la Luna/O che gia fu, di question' anime stanche/Non poterebble farne posar una. (All gold that is or was ever under the moon could not give a moment of rest to one of these tired souls”, song 7. v. 64, 65 & 66., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4262427: Engraving by Gustave Dore around 1850: evocation of an apocalyptic deluge combining biblical tradition (one can see in the distance the ark of Noe on the sea) and the beginning of scientific knowledge (various monstrous animals failed on the mountain, prefiguring the dinosaurs)., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4273773: Hunting on the river Teoghe, tributary of the Ngami. Hippo harpoon. Engraving by Gustave Dore illustrating “” les aventures et chasse du voyageur Charles-Jean Anderson dans l'Afrique Australe”, published in the journal “” Le tour du monde”, a new journal of voyages under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1860., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4089569: The old man holding a purse and his stick walking in a hostile landscape is surmounted by an angel waving a spee of fire, Plate VII - Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883), for La legende du Jew wandering by Pierre Dupont, Edition Librairie du magasin picturesque, Paris 1862, Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4152083: Boabdil leaves Granada - Abu Abd Allah Mohammed, aka El Chico (Muhammad XII) (1459-1533) the last Arab King of Granada, illustration from 'Stories of the Crusades' by J-F. Michaud, 1877 - The last of the Moorish kings Boabdil - Muhammad XII AZ-Zughbi leaves Granada, 1492 - engraving by Gustave Dore, in “” HISTORY of the CROUSADES”” 1877, Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4156274: Sancho Panza flies in front of Don Quixote in order to fulfill Merlin's wish and thus disenchanting Dulcinee from Toboso. Don Quixote urges him to moderate his ardors - from “Don Quixote de la Mancha” by Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616) (Don Quixote) - Woodcut after drawing by Gustave Dore, Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4285061: Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) for Ernest Lepine's book “La legende de Croquemitaine”” (1863) - In front of this image of fighting with the sword against a gigantic araignee, one cannot help but think of the battle of Frodo and Aragne in Tolkien's “Lord of the Rings” -, Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images