Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Sermon on the Mount
A speaker sits high among trees and rocks, with listeners gathered closely below him and further figures receding into the landscape. Doré uses the rising ground to give the act of speaking a natural platform. The listeners are dispersed rather than arranged as a formal court, allowing the setting to feel open while retaining a shared focus. The printed caption identifies the Sermon on the Mount. The engraved scene places teaching within a landscape inhabited by many individual bodies, joining the quiet principal figure to the scale of the assembled audience.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Sermon on the Mount" [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 261. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-260
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
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). The Sermon on the Mount. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 261. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-260