Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Disciples Plucking Corn on the Sabbath
A group moves beside standing grain while two men address a central robed figure at close range, with palms and distant buildings beyond. Doré places the dispute within a cultivated landscape, keeping the crop visible as part of the action’s setting. The company’s overlapping hands and turned shoulders make conversation the centre of the design. The printed caption identifies the disciples plucking corn on the Sabbath. The image connects the narrated controversy to an ordinary act of walking and gathering food, rather than treating it as an abstract exchange detached from the field.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Disciples Plucking Corn on the Sabbath" [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 281. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-280
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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). The Disciples Plucking Corn on the Sabbath. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 281. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-280