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![I, through compassion fainting [...] fell to the ground](https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/like-corpse.jpg)
From death, and like a corpse fell to the ground.
Artist
- Name:
- Doré, Gustave
- Dates:
- 1832-1883
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Dumont, Louis Paul Pierre
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- St. Michael's College Library, the Internet Archive
- Observations:
- Dated 1860 by the engraver
Book
- Title:
- Dante's Inferno
- Author(s):
- Alighieri, Dante
- Publisher:
- New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., n.d.
Description
A man lies sprawled on the ground and another kneels beside him wrapped in a gown as behind them the sky is filled with clusters of human figures flowing in all directions, as though blown around by strong and changing winds.
Keywords: 19th century, black & white, eerie, flying, nudity, wind
