Gustave Doré etchings: the visionary illustrator’s most haunting prints
Gustave Doré illustrated Dante’s Inferno, the Bible and Poe’s Raven with images that still unsettle readers. Almost none of it was etched: it was wood-engraved, cut by block-cutters and run off by the million on cylinder presses. This guide traces his darkest commissions and the market for what survives, rare drawings, blocks and one-off gouaches, now worth far more than the books they illustrated.
