Art, Symbol & Imagination
Jonah Calls Nineveh to Repentance
A robed speaker raises an arm before a gathering at the foot of immense city buildings. Listeners sit, kneel or turn towards him among steps and a tall column. The caption identifies Jonah addressing Nineveh. Doré makes the speaker comparatively small against the city's architectural mass, but gathers the foreground attention around his open gesture. Several different listening postures keep the company from becoming a single uniform crowd. The surrounding terraces and masonry extend the audience into a populated city, giving the spoken warning a scale larger than one encounter.
Read the source pageLoading your collection…
Citation
Gustave Doré (design). "Jonah Calls Nineveh to Repentance" [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 225. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-224
Source details
- Jonah Calling Nineveh to Repentance
- 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.
Sources
From the book
The Bible GalleryGustave Dore; Talbot W. ChambersUndated editionMore from this book
All 98 illustrations
Related illustrations
Cite this illustration
Gustave Doré (design). Jonah Calls Nineveh to Repentance. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 225. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-224