book of prints;
print
- Museum number
- 2006,u.3263
- Description
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"The Doré Gallery: Containing Two Hundred and Fifty Beautiful Engravings, selected from The Doré Bible, Milton, Dante's Inferno, Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso, Atala, Fontaine, Fairy Realm, Don Quixote, BAron Munchausen, Croquemitaine, &c. &c. With Memoir of Doré, Critical Essay, and Descriptive Letterpress by Edmund Ollier [volume 1]" (London, Cassell, Petter and Galpin) n.d. [1870?]; the first of two volumes containing 124 full-page wood-engravings by various printmakers after Doré, printed with letterpress captions and descriptions. Bound at the BM bindery.
Wood-engravings
- Production date
- 1870 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 360 millimetres
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Width: 270 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The related second volume is registered as 2006,U.3264.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Doré Gallery
- Acquisition date
- 1990
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2006,u.3263
