Art, Symbol & Imagination
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Dry Bones
A robed figure stands above a vast company of skeletal and partly restored bodies in a rocky hollow. Raised arms and lifted heads fill the lower field, while a bright opening divides the dark sky above. Doré gives the valley’s transformation the scale of a multitude without making every body identical. The caption identifies Ezekiel’s vision. The scene belongs to visionary narrative, turning the movement from scattered remains to a living company into an image of emergence rather than an ordinary earthly gathering.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Ezekiel’s Vision of the Dry Bones" [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 201. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-200
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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). Ezekiel’s Vision of the Dry Bones. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 201. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-200