The Druids arrive

Gustave Doré (1832-83), artist

1862

Source: X. B. Santine's La Mythologie du Rhin, 18.

“Les druides viennent d'apparaître dans la Gaule et dans la Germanie.” (21).

Doré's grotesque depiction of Druid human sacrifice appears more like a DuMaurier political cartoon than the earlier plates.

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