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Ruggiero rescuing Angelica   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Gustave Doré  (1832–1883)  wikidata:Q6682 s:en:Author:Paul Gustave Doré q:en:Gustave Doré
 
Gustave Doré
Alternative names
Paul Gustave Doré, Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré
Description French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, comics artist, lithographer and graphic artist
Date of birth/death 6 January 1832 Edit this at Wikidata 23 January 1883 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Strasbourg Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1844 Edit this at Wikidata–1883 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q6682
Title
Ruggiero rescuing Angelica
Description
illustration of Ludovico Ariosto’sOrlando Furioso”.
Date 1880–1881
Medium drawing
Notes cf. Category:Perseus and Andromeda
Source/Photographer Unknown sourceUnknown source

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Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica, an illustration for Orlando Furioso by Gustave Doré

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current08:14, 16 December 2012Thumbnail for version as of 08:14, 16 December 20121,185 × 1,200 (780 KB)AustriacusRemoved border and collection monogram.
20:53, 2 April 2006Thumbnail for version as of 20:53, 2 April 20061,195 × 1,210 (541 KB)Holger ThölkingGustave Doré’s illustration of Ludovico Ariosto’sOrlando Furioso”. {{PD-Art}}

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