Gustave dore

DORÉ, Gustave (1832-1883) An Angel Appears to Balaam (Num 23:15-35), (detail, inv.) 1866 Engraving Ed. Orig. Lic. Ed.

In with the river sunk, and with it rose, Satan. This image was taken from Milton’s Paradise Lost. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Edited, with Notes and a Life of Milton, by Robert Vaughan, D.D. London, [etc.], Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1879]. Original held by: Archives and Special Collections Institution: Dickinson College Location: Carlisle, PA Contact us at: archives@dickinson.edu

Cover Plate 1 - Title Page Plate 2 - Nevermore Plate 3 - ANATKH (Inevitability) Plate 4 - A Midnight Dreary Plate 5 - Bleak December Plate 6 - Vainly I had Sought to Borrow Plate 7 - Sorrow for Lenore Plate 8 - Nameless Here for Evermore Plate 9 - Some Late Visitor Plate 10 - Darkness there and Nothing More Plate 11 - Dreams No Mortal Ever Dared to Dream Before Plate 12 - Something at My Window Lattice Plate 13 - Open here I Flung the Shutter Plate 14 - Not the Least Obeisance Made He Plate…

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The Sparkling Circles of the Heavenly Host - Gustave Doré, illustration for Dante’s Paradiso

The gates to hell in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy tell us to “abandon all hope, yet who enter here”. Despite its unfunny premise, ‘La Commedia’ ends well, with its protagonist Dante reaching heaven.

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