Scottish Landscape
Gustave Doré
1873
Medium
Black crayon and brush and brown and gray wash, with touches of pen and black ink, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream board
Dimensions
28.1 × 44 cm (11 1/8 × 17 3/8 in.)
Classification
crayon
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
34620
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...