Château d'If, The Count of Monte Cristo

A limited-edition art print of Insua's drawing of the Château d'If from Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo (1844).
 
Available in three sizes -
A4 (quarter size: 21 x 29.7 cm / 8.3 x 11.7 inches)
A3 (half size: 29.7 x 42 cm / 11.7 x 16.5 inches)
A2 (full size: 42 x 59.4 cm / 16.5 x 23.4 inches)
 
Before he can marry his fiancée Mercédès, Edmond Dantès, a French nineteen-year-old first mate of the merchant ship Pharaon, is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial in the Château d'If, a grim island fortress off Marseille. This drawing captures the starkness and remoteness of the fortress, in which Dantès languishes for almost fifteen years before his escape.
 
"Dantes made no resistance; he was like a man in a dream: he saw soldiers drawn up on the embankment; he knew vaguely that he was ascending a flight of steps; he was conscious that he passed through a door, and that the door closed behind him; but all this indistinctly as through a mist. He did not even see the ocean, that terrible barrier against freedom, which the prisoners look upon with utter despair."
- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
 
Note
Premium giclée prints on thick 310gsm fine art paper. Hand-signed and hand-numbered by the artist. All prints are sold unframed.
 
Prices
A4 (quarter size) - £65
A3 (half size) - £95
A2 (full size) - £125
 
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