Jump to content

File:Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 9 (Canto III - Charon).jpg

This is a Featured picture. Click here for more information.
This image was selected for display on the Main Page as the picture of the day. Click here for more information.
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

Original file (4,696 × 6,458 pixels, file size: 25.71 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Gustave Doré's engravings illustrated the Divine Comedy (1861–1868); here Charon comes to ferry souls across the river Acheron to Hell

Summary

[edit]
Artist
Gustave Doré (1832–1883)  wikidata:Q6682 s:en:Author:Paul Gustave Doré q:en:Gustave Doré
 
Gustave Doré
Alternative names
Paul Gustave Doré, Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré
Description French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, comics artist, lithographer and graphic artist
Date of birth/death 6 January 1832 Edit this at Wikidata 23 January 1883 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Strasbourg Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1844 Edit this at Wikidata–1883 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q6682
Description
English: Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate IX: Canto III: Arrival of Charon. "And lo! towards us coming in a boat / An old man, hoary with the hair of eld, / Crying: 'Woe unto you, ye souls depraved!'" (Longfellow's translation) "And, lo! toward us in a bark / Comes an old man, hoary white with eld, / Crying "Woe to you, wicked spirits!" (Cary's translation)
Français : Illustration par Gustave Doré de l'enfer de Dante (La Divine Comédie). Planche IX, Chant III : L'arrivée de Caron. «Là, je vis s'avancer vers nous, dans un esquif, / Un vieillard aux cheveux aussi blancs que la neige, / Qui criait « "Gare à vous, pervers esprits damnés !" ».
Date Originally 1857
Source/Photographer

[From the Title Page:]

Dante's Inferno
translated by
The Rev. Henry Francis Cary, MA
from the original of
Dante Alighieri
and illustrated with the designs of
M. Gustave Doré
New Edition
With Critical and Explanatory notes, Life of Dante, and Chronology
Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
New York, London and Paris

The book was printed c. 1890 in America.

Licensing

[edit]
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

Picture of the year
Picture of the year
Featured picture

Wikimedia CommonsWikipedia

This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here.
 This is a featured picture on the English language Wikipedia (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here.
 This is a featured picture on the Turkish language Wikipedia (Seçkin resimler) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here.

If you have an image of similar quality that can be published under a suitable copyright license, be sure to upload it, tag it, and nominate it.

 This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Levels adjustment, dirt and scratch removal, the line caused by the gap between the woodblocks was made a little more subtle.. The original can be viewed here: Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 9 (Canto III - Charon).png: .

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current16:01, 6 January 2009Thumbnail for version as of 16:01, 6 January 20094,696 × 6,458 (25.71 MB)Adam Cuerden (talk | contribs)The other image had been cropped. This is from a 19th-century original I have bought.
15:23, 18 November 2008Thumbnail for version as of 15:23, 18 November 20082,314 × 2,826 (6.27 MB)Adam Cuerden (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate VIII: Canto III: Arrival of Charon. "And lo! towards us coming in a boat / An old man, hoary with the hair of eld, / Crying: 'Woe unto you, ye souls depraved!'" (Longfellow

You cannot overwrite this file.

The following 50 pages use this file:

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

View more global usage of this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Gustave_Doré_-_Dante_Alighieri_-_Inferno_-_Plate_9_(Canto_III_-_Charon).jpg&oldid=933577738"