Image: Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 9 (Canto III - Charon)
Description: Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate IX: Canto III: Arrival of Charon. "And lo! towards us coming in a boat / An old man, hoary with the hair of eld, / Crying: 'Woe unto you, ye souls depraved!'" (Longfellow's translation) "And, lo! toward us in a bark / Comes an old man, hoary white with eld, / Crying "Woe to you, wicked spirits!" (Cary's translation)
Title: Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 9 (Canto III - Charon)
Credit: [From the Title Page:] Dante's Inferno translated by The Rev. Henry Francis Cary, MA from the original of Dante Alighieri and illustrated with the designs of M. Gustave Doré New Edition With Critical and Explanatory notes, Life of Dante, and Chronology Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. New York, London and Paris The book was printed c. 1890 in America.
Author: Gustave Doré
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License: Public domain
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