Christian Martyrs
Gustave Doré · 1869/1871 · black chalk and brown washes, heightened with white, on wove paper
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About this picture
Christian Martyrs is a public-domain drawing by Gustave Doré, dated 1869/1871. Black chalk and brown washes, heightened with white, on wove paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Christian Martyrs” (1869/1871) is book illustration in Doré’s manner: a dense, theatrical plate for the Bible, Dante, Cervantes, or a fairy tale.
About the artist
Gustave Doré (1832–1883) was a French illustrator. His wood-engraved plates for the Bible, Dante, Cervantes, and fairy tales set the look of nineteenth-century book illustration.
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