Gustave Doré

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/gustave-dor

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1. When was Gustave Doré born?January 6, 1832
2. Where was Gustave Doré born?Strasbourg, France
3. What is the career?Printmaker, illustrator, painter, caricaturist, comics artist, and sculptor
4. Who was Gustave Doré?Gustave Doré was a French artist who drew amazing pictures for books, especially famous for his illustrations of the Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy.
5. How many pictures did he create?He made over 10,000 drawings and prints during his career.

Prolific: Producing a large amount of work, especially in a creative field.
Wood-engraving: A relief printing technique where an image is carved into the end-grain surface of a wood block.
Electrotyping: A process of producing a metal plate by electrodeposition, used for printing to create durable copies of engravings.