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    Gustave Doré – Barbebleue from Perrault’s Fairy tales 1867

  • engraving,  prints

    Minos stands in judgement in Dante’s Inferno Canto 5 line 4 as drawn by Gustave Doré 1861-1865. The caption reads:

    There Minos stands.
                       Canto V., line 4.
    
  • artists,  illustration,  painters,  woodcut

    A was an Artist, Sir William Nicholson, 1898. From ‘An Alphabet’, it shows William Nicholson as a pavement artist. I love this because it’s darkly funny as it reminds me of leaving art school and the reality I faced, hence why I have it on the wall since I ‘was’ an artist too.