Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Last Supper
A company sits around a broad table in a columned room, with the central figure lit beneath hanging drapery and attendants gathered at the edges. Doré uses the tabletop to connect the participants while allowing their inclined heads and differing gestures to remain individually visible. An opening beyond the curtains brings light into the otherwise enclosed gathering. The printed caption identifies the Last Supper. The design presents the meal as a shared material setting whose ordered arrangement carries a moment of address, attention and expectation within the biblical sequence.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Last Supper" [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 341. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-340
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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 Last Supper. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 341. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-340