Christian Martyrs

1875

Gustave Doré, Artist Herbert Bourne, Artist

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About the Artwork

Title Christian Martyrs

Artwork Date 1875

Makers Gustave Doré (Artist) French, 1832-1883 Herbert Bourne (Artist) English, 1820-1950

Medium Engraving in ink on chine colle

Dimensions Image: 22 1/8 × 32 inches (56.2 × 81.3 cm) Plate: 26 3/4 × 36 1/4 inches (67.9 × 92.1 cm) Sheet: 31 3/4 × 44 1/4 inches (80.6 × 112.4 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Coleman Mopper

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F79.270

Markings

Signed Signed, in plate, approximating the cursive signature of the artist, lower left: G Dore Signed, lower right: H. Bourne

Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate above image, top center: London: October 19th 1875, Published by Fairless and Beeforth, Dore Gallery, 35 New Bond Street, W, Copyright Registered Inscribed, center bottom edge of chine: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1876 by Frank Hunter Potter in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington

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Dr. Coleman Mopper and Shirley A. Mopper (Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA);
1979-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Le Blanc, H. Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Complet de Gustave Dore. Paris, 1931, p. 525, no. 177.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Herbert Bourne; after Gustave Doré, Christian Martyrs, 1875, engraving in ink on chine colle. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Coleman Mopper, F79.270.