A Backstreet in London
Gustave Doré
1868
Medium
graphite with stumping on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 27.7 x 20.9 cm (10 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift in Memory of Philip Leonard
Accession Number
2008.73.1
About the Artist
Gustave Doré · 1832–1883
Gustave Doré (1832–1883) was a French artist who became the most celebrated and prolific illustrator of the nineteenth century, creating iconic visual interpretations of world literature that remain definitive to this day. Born in Strasbourg, he showed extraordinary precocious talent, publishing his first lithographs at age fifteen and securing a contract with a Paris publisher while still a teena...