🎨 ABOUT GUSTAVE DORÉ 🎨
Few illustrators made darkness and light as expressive as Gustave Doré. His engravings often feel like glimpses into strange, enormous worlds where mountains, ruins, angels and human beings emerge dramatically from shadow. Doré illustrated everything from sacred scripture to fantasy, satire and literary classics, yet his unmistakable atmosphere connects them all. More than an illustrator, he was a master of visual storytelling.

🖼️ ABOUT THE ARTWORK 🖼️
Centaurs gather beside a red river as Dante and Virgil appear on the ridge above. In Canto XII of the Inferno, Nessus challenges the approaching travellers while the armed guardians patrol the blood in which violent souls are punished. Doré places powerful human torsos above restless horse bodies, giving the group a tense, watchful energy. Hands and faces break the river’s surface beneath them. The coloured water makes the landscape’s horror unmistakable, while the tiny poets on the distant height seem momentarily beyond reach of the bows below.

📏 SIZES 📏

Small — Approx. 26.4 × 21.0 cm
Large — Approx. 37.3 × 29.7 cm
Finished dimensions may vary slightly due to processing.

🖨️ PAPER QUALITY 🖨️
Printed on premium 265gsm heavyweight photographic paper with a smooth satin/lustre finish. The substantial, professional-quality stock is designed to reproduce artwork with strong detail, tonal depth and colour.

• 🖼️ Frame not included – Frames and surrounding décor shown in mockup images are for display purposes only. This listing is for the art print only.
• 🖨️ No discretionary refunds – Each print is produced individually to order after purchase rather than held as pre-printed stock, so please check your selected size carefully before ordering. This does not affect your statutory consumer rights or applicable eBay buyer protections.

🛡️ PACKAGING 🛡️
Each print is supplied in a protective cellophane sleeve and a sturdy cardboard-backed envelope to help protect it during storage and delivery.

🚚 DELIVERY 🚚

• Royal Mail Tracked 48®
• Yodel 72