Art, Symbol & Imagination
Baruch: The Scribe at Rest
A robed figure reclines on large stone steps with a writing surface near the body and a bright opening beyond. The heavy architecture leaves the sitter in a narrow region of shade. Doré makes the position of the hands and the bent head suggest thought held close to its material work. The caption identifies Baruch. The plate gives an individual scribe or prophetic companion a quiet place within the volume, contrasting the still act of attending to words with the great public scenes that surround it in the sequence.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Baruch: The Scribe at Rest" [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 193. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-192
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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). Baruch: The Scribe at Rest. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 193. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-192