Gustave Doré’s Engravings of the Great Flood
Another book we had around the house when I was a kid was the Gustave Doré Bible, which included these terrifying images of the Great Flood.
Click the picture and zoom in for a closer look.
The entire colleciton of illustrations is available online at the environnement ecoles webpage.
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Truly amazing drawings, but how ever did we survive them as children? ! I remember Blake too and Bosch and a host of others that that both fascinated and horrified. Yikes.