Christmas countdown - day 1

You may think that the work of Gustave Doré, the world famous illustrator, whose woodcuts and engravings brought to life such works as Poe’s The Raven and Coleridge’s’ Rime of the ancient mariner, might have little to do with Boston.
Not so.
In our search for something humorous in the run up to Christmas we stumbled across the images he created to illustrate Danté’s Divine Comedy.
And immediately some of the pictures struck a chord.
We reproduce them below – suitably captioned, and hope they make you smile.
If you have an idea for a caption please send it to us.
  

Tomorrow, the winning entry in our “caption a Botticelli masterpiece to provide a Boston slant….” which is also the runner-up in the Boston Eye Christmas card competition.

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