Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Resurrection of Lazarus
A shrouded figure emerges from a dark rock opening towards a standing visitor with an extended hand, while witnesses gather along the stepped approach. Doré sets the cave’s darkness against the brighter robes near its mouth, making the threshold itself part of the action. Faces and arms in the surrounding company turn towards the figure coming forward. The printed caption identifies the resurrection of Lazarus. The illustration gives the narrative’s return from burial a material setting in stone, cloth and human company, with movement across the opening carrying the event’s visual force.
Read the source pageLoading your collection…
Citation
Gustave Doré (design). "The Resurrection of Lazarus" [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 333. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-332
Source details
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.
Sources
From the book
The Bible GalleryGustave Dore; Talbot W. ChambersUndated editionMore from this book
All 98 illustrations
Related illustrations
Cite this illustration
Gustave Doré (design). The Resurrection of Lazarus. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 333. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-332