Art, Symbol & Imagination
Jephthah Met by His Daughter
A young woman advances with a raised tambourine while companions follow across a rocky hillside. An approaching figure stands farther back near the edge of the group. The caption identifies the daughter's meeting with Jephthah. Doré gives the dancers a buoyant movement that the narrative's tragic consequence will complicate. Their raised arms and musical objects record the welcome as it first appears, before its meaning changes. The open landscape lets the celebration spread across the scene, while the separated returning figure introduces a second, less expansive direction of attention.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Jephthah Met by His Daughter" [editorial title]. In The Bible Gallery, Gustave Dore; Talbot W. Chambers. Undated Cassell & Company edition; one hundred illustrations with supplied descriptive letterpress, undated edition, Cassell & Company, Limited. Source scan leaf 101. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-100
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Original source design and caption inspected; composition retained with scan margins trimmed. No reconstructed or recoloured details.
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Gustave Doré (design). Jephthah Met by His Daughter. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 101. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-100