Art, Symbol & Imagination
Solomon with His Scrolls
An elderly crowned figure sits with a written scroll in one hand and loose pages around his feet. The broad steps and bare wall give the single body a quiet monumental scale. Doré makes the long beard, inclined head and open gesture carry the portrait rather than surrounding it with an active court. The caption identifies Solomon. The plate pauses the larger narrative sequence for a figure associated here with reflection and written wisdom, while the scattered sheets keep that wisdom tied to material forms.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Solomon with His Scrolls" [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 153. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-152
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Complete plate reviewed against the scan; printed caption supplies subject. Crop excludes surrounding paper and separate caption without changing scan tone. Letterpress theology is not adopted as historical proof.
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Gustave Doré (design). Solomon with His Scrolls. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 153. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-152