Le capitaine Fracasse
Théophile Gautier's novel Le Capitaine Fracasse, published in Paris by Charpentier in 1866, is a French swashbuckling adventure story with wood-engraved plates after Gustave Doré. The pictures are dense black-and-white engravings, many printed sideways on the page, showing crowded theatrical scenes of players, soldiers and riders in period costume, and a designer might borrow their hatching, cloaked silhouettes and dramatic staging for period illustration or costume-drama graphics.
