PCT4278292: Sindbad the sailor (Sinbad) - tale of the thousand and one (1001) nights - illustration by Gustave Dore - edition Maxwell 1865 - Second voyage: Sindbat discovers a valley with diamonds, but which is unfortunately occupied by giant snakes. He will take refuge in a cave where he will close the entrance with a rock to get out of reach of the monsters., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
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
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
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