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Gustave DorÈ , artist
French, 1832 - 1883
This Ho! Ho! with a Beard of Flies Legs, illustration no. 233 on page 319 in the book Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine (Les contes drolatiques) by HonorÈ de Balzac. 1st English translation (London: John Camden Hotten, [1874]), 1874
wood engraving
192 x 125 mm (7 9/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.38710.233

author, HonorÈ de Balzac

Artist Credit: all

Artist Biography: Printmaker, etcher, lithographer, illustrator; born Louis Christophe Paul Gustave DorÈ in Strasbourg 6 January 1832; died Paris 23 January 1883; see Henri LeBlanc, Catalogue de L'Oeuvre Complet de Gustave DorÈ~~Reference: LeBlanc, Henri: Catalogue de l*oeuvre complet de Gustave DorÈ (Paris: Ch. Bosse, 1931)~