The Doré Engravings

Gustave Doré — Fallen & Legendary

Gustave Doré (1832–1883) was one of the most prolific illustrators of the 19th century — a French engraver whose plates for Milton's Paradise Lost, Dante's Inferno and later editions of Tennyson's Idylls of the King became the default visual language for those stories for the century that followed. His work is dense and theatrical: falling angels, coiled demons, kings and their undoing, all rendered in the fine crosshatched linework that engraving demanded.

Because Doré died in 1883, his plates have been in the public domain for decades — free to reproduce and recontextualize, and in Fallen Fenris's case, rebuilt as wearable prints. Every design below starts from a specific plate, cleaned up for print without altering the original composition, then set against a dark ground that lets the linework carry the image.

The series takes its name from the shop's own namesake piece: Lucifer mid-fall from Paradise Lost, wings spread, falling forever. The rest of the set ranges across Doré's major commissions — Milton's fallen host, Dante's descent through the Inferno, the doomed figures of Arthurian legend, Old Testament scenes from Genesis and Job, and single plates from his Poe and Perrault illustrations — twenty-three plates in total. Genuine Redbubble product photos below, each a real photo from that exact listing; every link goes straight to the live product page.

Explore the Paradise Lost triptych