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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.335.D
People
Gustave Doré, French (Strasbourg 1832 - 1883 Paris)
Title
Wood-engraving block: "So lovely twas, that God Himself scarce seemed there to be"
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Rime of the Ancient Mariner, plate 37
Classification
Artists' Tools
Work Type
printing block
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/54418

Physical Descriptions

Dimensions
frame: 34.3 × 27.5 cm (13 1/2 × 10 13/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.335.D
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Robert Rosenblum and Lisa Small, Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré, ed. Eric M. Zafran, Yale University Press and Dahesh Museum of Art (New York and New Haven, 2007), p. 179 (in checklist of Gustave Doré works in North American Collections, Fogg Art Museum)

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