| Timeline |
| 1832 |
Born 6 January in Strasbourg |
| 1846 |
First album of lithographs published, called Les Travaux d'Hercules |
| 1847 |
Begins working for Journal pour rire de Philipon |
| 1852 |
Illustrations for Rabelais and Balzac |
| 1853 |
Illustrates the works of Lord Byron |
| 1861 |
Illustrates Dante's Inferno |
| 1863 |
Illustrates Cervantes's Don Quixote |
| 1865 |
Illustrates Milton's Paradise Lost |
| 1866 |
Illustrates a new English Bible |
| 1867 |
Begins illustrations for Tennyson's Idylls of the King; completes illustrations for La Fontaine's Fables |
| 1867 |
Major exhibition of his work in London; foundation of the Doré Gallery in New Bond Street |
| 1868 |
Illustrates the Purgatorio and Paradiso of Dante |
| 1868 |
Signs contract with the publishers Grant & Co to illustrate London: A Pilgrimage |
| 1873 |
Illustrates the works of Rabelais |
| 1882 |
Illustrates Poe's The Raven; sculpts Alexandre Dumas monument |
| 1883 |
Dies 23 January |
