Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Good Samaritan
A traveller supports an injured man upon a horse along a rugged road, with the animal’s bent neck and the bearer’s arms joining the two bodies. Doré places the encounter beneath a wide, pale sky, leaving the rough ground visible around the small company. The act of carrying is difficult and bodily, rather than reduced to a symbolic gesture. The printed caption identifies the Good Samaritan. This episode from the parable shows assistance as transport and sustained effort, giving the narrative’s concern with care a clear relation to weight, movement and an exposed route.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Good Samaritan" [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 305. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-304
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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 Good Samaritan. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 305. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-304