File:Gustave Dore Inferno1.jpg

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English: Dante finds himself lost in a gloomy wood, from Canto 1 of Divine Comedy, illustrated by Paul Gustave Doré (1832-1883). The image is from an 1861 edition of Dante's Inferno, the first part of the poem. The caption reads "'In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray' Canto 1 lines 1,2." Doré's edition can be read online here (Project Gutenberg) and here (Archive.org).
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Source https://archive.org/details/dantesinferno00dantuoft/page/n33
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Walter Crane  (1845–1915)  wikidata:Q660917 s:en:Author:Walter Crane
 
Walter Crane
Description British painter, illustrator, drawer and visual artist
Date of birth/death 15 August 1845 Edit this at Wikidata 14 March 1915 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Liverpool Edit this at Wikidata Horsham Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1859 Edit this at Wikidata–1915 Edit this at Wikidata
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current22:17, 29 November 2019Thumbnail for version as of 22:17, 29 November 20192,360 × 3,158 (2.09 MB)Black MorganBigger
19:49, 6 March 2005Thumbnail for version as of 19:49, 6 March 2005720 × 1,088 (271 KB)Wikibob~commonswikiInferno Canto 1 line 1-2 illustrated by Paul Gustave Doré from http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/8/7/7/8779/8779-h/images/01-002b.jpg
22:51, 27 November 2004Thumbnail for version as of 22:51, 27 November 2004600 × 740 (161 KB)Wikibob~commonswikiIllustration 1 of Divine Comedy:Inferno by Gustave Dore (1832-1883)

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