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  Doré was born in  Strasbourg  on 6 January 1832. By age 5 he was a prodigy artist, creating drawings that were mature beyond his years. Seven years later, he began carving in stone. [ citation needed ]  At the age of 15, Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper  Le journal pour rire . [2]  Wood-engraving was his primary method at this time. [3]  In the late 1840s and early 1850s, he made several  text comics , like  Les Travaux d'Hercule  (1847),  Trois artistes incompris et mécontents  (1851),  Les Dés-agréments d'un voyage d'agrément  (1851) and  L'Histoire de la Sainte Russie  (1854). Doré subsequently went on to win commissions to depict scenes from books by  Cervantes ,  Rabelais ,  Balzac ,  Milton , and  Dante .

  He was  knighted  for artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered mainly as the principal political cartoonist for  Punch  magazine for over 50 years and for his illustrations to  Lewis Carroll 's  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland  (1865) and  Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There  (1871).

  He is known for his  Arthur Rackham -influenced fairy-tale style and use of  silhouetted  figures with  caricatured  faces. Tenggren was a chief illustrator for  The Walt Disney Company  in the late 1930s, in what has been called  the Golden Age of American animation , when  animated   feature films  such as  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ,  Fantasia ,  Bambi  and  Pinocchio  were produced. https://illustratorslounge.com/childrens-books/gustaf-tenggren-1896-1970/