Gustave Doré Art

Antique print depictin Ostrea, a genus of edible oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Ostreidae, the oysters. Issued in 1809 as part of the conchology section of Abraham Re...

Set of two antique bird prints titled 'Birds of Paradise' and 'Great Emeral Bird of Paradise'. These prints originate from 'The Natural History of The Sacred Scriptures, and Guide to...

Antique bird print titled 'Histoire Naturelle, l'oiseau de Paradis, le Paille en queue, la Corneille mantelée'. Beautiful copper engraving depicting the bird of paradise, tropicbird and the hooded...

Decorative print illustrating the Magnificent Bird of Paradise and the King Bird of Paradise. This authentic print originates from 'Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds' by Tom Iredale....

Antique bird print titled 'Diphyllodes Hunsteini'. Original lithograph of Hunstein's bird of paradise. This print originates from 'Birds of Asia' by John Gould. Published 1850-1853.

Antique print titled 'Kleding der Tonkiners'. Old print of the clothing/dress of the Tonkin people, Vietnam. This print originates from 'Hedendaagsche Historie, of tegenwoordige staa...

Antique bird print titled 'Diphyllodes Magnifica'. Original lithograph of the magnificent bird of paradise. This print originates from 'Birds of Asia' by John Gould. Published 1850-1...

Decorative print illustrating the Wattled Bird of Paradise, MacGregor's Bird of Paradise and the Short-Tailed Wattled Bird of Paradise. This authentic print originates from 'Birds of...

Antique print titled 'Aiguière (Grotesche) - Collection de Mr. le Bon Gustave de Rothschild a Paris'. Large format, color lithographed plate of an aiguière of the collection of Mr. l...

PLAINS OF JUPITER is a hand drawn color lithograph by the British painter Harold Hitchcock printed using hand lithography on archival Arches paper 100% acid free. In the dreamy, roma...

This beautiful 19th century framed hand-colored engraving is entitled "St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall" by J. Saddler after an original painting by the British artist Myles Birket Fost...

This beautiful 19th century framed engraving "The Fighting Temeraire" by James Tibbetts Willmore is based on an original painting by the renowned British artist J.M.W. Turner. It was published by James S. Virtue & Co. in London between 1859-1875. It depicts the once mighty British warship the HMS Temeraire being towed away down the river Thames by a much smaller steamboat to a ship-breaking yard to be broken up for scrap. The Temeraire was first launched in 1798 and represented the pinnacle of British ship-building. 180-feet long, constructed of English oak and armed with 98 guns, she was one of the largest warships of the period. The Temeraire became a symbol of British pride and military power that endured throughout the 19th century. The man-of-war served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was among the last serving ships to have been at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It became one of the many older ships put out of service in the 1830s and 1840s. The once mighty and feared ship symbolizes a once magnificent, but now obsolete, technology. Turner seems to lament her inglorious final journey, being towed by a less magnificent, but modern steam powered tugboat. The Turner painting was created in 1838 and is now held in the National Gallery in London. Willmore's engraving, created in 1859, captures the dramatic scene with great detail and skill. The image has become an iconic representation of the decline of Britain's naval power and the transition from sail to steam in the 19th century. The sunset in the background is symbolic of the sun going down on British naval power and tradition. The painting conveys profound and diverse themes that are central to the human experience: those of mortality and change, technology and progress, heroism and brutality. The painting demonstrates Turner’s skill as an artist. His ability to produce scenes of great beauty that are dramatic, but are also symbolic, stimulating both thoughtful analysis, as well as emotion. Turner's painting was voted by the British public in a 2005 BBC radio sponsored survey to be the British people's favorite painting of all time. In 2020 it was included on a new British banknote...