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I dreamed I had lost my way_Rebecca

Images by Doré
all recreated in full colour for orrydian

Idylls of the King, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

She did not seem as dead, but fast asleep

All day long we rode through the dim land against a rushing wind.

The flickering fairy circle wheeled and broke

She cast her arms about him, and at once they rode away.

Blue Beard and other Fairy Tales, by Michael Richard Hinton
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

Suddenly a wolf stood in her way.

Mark well! This little key's a special one.

He ran towards the bed and dragged them out.

Let me see if I can do it. Please!

Paradise Lost, by John Milton
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

Forthwith upright he rears from off the Pool his mighty Stature.

So parted they.

Then Satan first knew pain.

Let the Waters generate Reptil with Spawn abundant.

The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

The Wolf and the Lamb

The Town Rat and the Country Rat

An animal in the moon

The Monkey and the Dolphin

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

Ancient Mariner no.1

Ancient Mariner no.5

Ancient Mariner no.2

Ancient Mariner no.6

Gustave Doré’s Bible: the Old Testament
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

Adam and Eve are driven out of Eden

Joshua Burns the Town of Ai

Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire.

Jonah is Spewed Forth by the Whale.

Gustave Doré’s Bible: the New Testament
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

Wise Men are Guided by a Star.

Herod's Daughter Receives the Head of John the Baptist.

Jesus is Mocked.

The Pale Horse of Death

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, volume 1
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

It was early morning and the rays of the sun fell on them obliquely.

As he drove his lance-point into the sail the wind whirled it round.

They, however, did not stay their laughter or their work for this.

Caged and hoisted on the cart.

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, volume 2
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

On taking leave he kissed the hands of the duke and duchess and got his master's blessing.

Come along, comrade and friend and partner of my toils and sorrows.

I fear me they will overtake them and bring them back tied to the tail of their own horse.

At last Don Quixote's end came.

The Divine Comedy: Inferno, by Dante Alighieri
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

Behold the monster.

This one is Nimrod.

There do the hideous harpies make their nests.

Lightly in the abyss he put us down.

The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

Four and twenty Elders.

O mad Arachne!

In sooth I'm Beatrice!

I fell, and tenantless my flesh remained.

The Divine Comedy: Paradiso, by Dante Alighieri
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

In fashion then as of a snow-white rose.

Their number makes more millions than the doubling of the chess.

Beatrice and Dante in the sphere of Saturn.

On that cross as levin gleamed forth Christ.

The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

The Raven no.1

The Raven no.8

The Raven no.5

The Raven no.16

Mayhem in the Middle East
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, recreated in colour by Michael Richard Hinton

The world is destroyed by water.

David slays Goliath

Elijah destroys the messengers of Ahaziah.

The Firstborn of the Egyptians are Slain.

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