Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Expulsion from the Garden
A sword-bearing angel stands in a break of dazzling light while two human figures bend away beneath the trees. Doré makes departure a change in posture and illumination: the upright heavenly figure commands the passage while the lowered couple enter the shadowed foreground. Dense foliage closes around the small route. The plate opens the book’s biblical sequence with the loss of a familiar world, giving the boundary of the garden a physical and emotional force.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Expulsion from the Garden" [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 17. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-16
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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). The Expulsion from the Garden. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 17. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-16