Algunas ilustraciones de Gustave Doré para Don Quixote

Amo las ilustraciones de Gustave Doré, me embeleso al verlas y me pregunto cómo podría haberlas hecho. Tengo un libro sobre Londres, con sus ilustraciones, y el prólogo dice que Doré era un hombre solitario, vivía con su madre, soltero, sin hijos. Dedicó su vida a su arte. Ya hablaremos más de él cuando postee sobre esta joyita de libro que tengo en mi mesita de luz, no he intentado aún pasarlo a la biblioteca, lo tengo como reliquia. Acá comparto varias imágenes de Don Quixote, ilustrado por Gustave Doré, un placer a la vista y dejo el link para que vean muchas ilustraciones más.

Such was the end of the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, whose village Cide Hamete would not indicate precisely, in order to leave all the towns and villages of La Mancha to contend among themselves for the right to adopt him and claim him as a son, as the seven cities of Greece contended for Homer. The lamentations of Sancho and the niece and housekeeper are omitted here, as well as the new epitaphs upon his tomb; Samson Carrasco, however, put the following lines:

A doughty gentleman lies here;
A stranger all his life to fear;
Nor in his death could Death prevail,
In that last hour, to make him quail.
He for the world but little cared;
And at his feats the world was scared;
A crazy man his life he passed,
But in his senses died at last.

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