Art, Symbol & Imagination
Jesus and the Woman Taken in Adultery
A woman sits low beside a standing robed figure in a walled enclosure, while a company gathers close with faces directed towards the central encounter. Doré uses the dark recesses of the architecture to concentrate attention on the two nearest bodies. The surrounding people form a charged social space without obscuring the seated woman. The printed caption identifies Jesus and the woman taken in adultery. The design presents the narrated confrontation through posture and proximity, placing vulnerability, address and the pressure of a gathered audience within one bounded scene.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Jesus and the Woman Taken in Adultery" [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 329. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-328
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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 and the Woman Taken in Adultery. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 329. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-328