Art, Symbol & Imagination
Abraham Entertains Three Strangers
A kneeling elder raises his hands towards three travellers crossing a bare, stony landscape. Long robes and a low horizon separate the visitors from the ground beneath them. The printed title identifies Abraham receiving the strangers. Doré puts hospitality into the distance between the bowed host and the approaching company, allowing the empty country to become a place of encounter. The visitors' nearly matching postures give them a collective presence, while the single bent figure establishes the human response to their arrival.
Read the source pageLoading your collection…
Citation
Gustave Doré (design). "Abraham Entertains Three Strangers" [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 37. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-36
Source details
- Abraham Entertains Three Strangers
- Biblical illustration
- Gustave Doré (design)
- Historical book illustration
Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Original source design and caption inspected; composition retained with scan margins trimmed. No reconstructed or recoloured details.
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). Abraham Entertains Three Strangers. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 37. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-36