Art, Symbol & Imagination
Jesus Questioning the Doctors
A young figure stands among elderly readers and speakers in a stone chamber, while open books and seated bodies fill the foreground. Doré arranges the assembly at several heights so that the central youth is neither alone nor absorbed into an undifferentiated crowd. The printed caption identifies Jesus questioning the doctors, from Luke’s childhood episode. Written learning is visible in the volumes around the company, but attention passes towards a living exchange between figures whose age and position differ markedly.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Jesus Questioning the Doctors" [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 253. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-252
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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). Jesus Questioning the Doctors. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 253. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-252