Puss in Boots

Print

Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

Puss in Boots

Entry/Object ID

1991.17.14

Description

color

Type of Print

Engraving

Artwork Details

Medium

Paper

Acquisition

Accession

1991.17

Source or Donor

William A. McGill

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of William A. McGill

Made/Created

Artist

Gustav Doré

Date made

1870

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Engraving

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Intaglio

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Dimension Description

16 x 20

Exhibitions

Pao Student Windows (2023)

Lasting Impressions (2004)

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

"Born in Strasbourg, France in 1832, Gustave Doré was a book illustrator in Paris whose commissions included work by Rabelais, Balzac and Dante. He became the most popular and successful French book illustrator of the mid 19th century. His wood engravings for classic texts reveal his gift for dramatizing his subjects through vivid imagination and speedy execution. His work is characterized by a highly spirited love of the grotesque that represents a commercialization of the Romantic taste for the bizarre. Doré continued to illustrate texts until his death in 1883. "