Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Cedars Destined for the Temple
Workers and animals pull massive timber through a wooded ravine while tree trunks rise into the dark canopy. Cut branches and rough ground interrupt the crowded foreground route. The caption connects these cedars with the building of the temple. Doré gives the materials a weight that exceeds the scale of the people handling them, turning construction into an account of collective labour before architecture appears. The standing forest and the transported trunk remain visible together, so the image holds the source of the timber beside the effort required to move it.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Cedars Destined for the Temple" [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 161. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-160
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- The Cedars Destined for the Temple
- Biblical illustration
- Gustave Doré (design)
- Historical book illustration
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). The Cedars Destined for the Temple. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 161. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-160