Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Agony in the Garden
A kneeling figure raises an arm towards a pale winged visitor above a rocky ledge, surrounded by heavy trees and a narrow opening of sky. Doré sets the two bodies at different heights, giving the encounter a vertical movement within the dense garden. The rocks remain close and rough around the kneeling person. The printed caption identifies the agony in the garden. The illustration selects a moment of visitation within the narrated distress, making the bright attendant’s presence answer the lowered body without opening the scene into a public or ceremonial space.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Agony in the Garden" [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 345. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-344
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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 Agony in the Garden. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 345. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-344