Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Journey to Emmaus
Three robed travellers walk together along an open road, their heads turned towards a conversation while the distant horizon remains low and pale. Doré reduces the scene to a small moving company and a broad field of sky, giving the walkers’ relation greater prominence than architectural detail. Long garments and staffs connect the bodies to the act of travelling. The printed caption identifies the journey to Emmaus. The illustration offers a quiet encounter in motion, making shared passage through the landscape the setting in which the narrative’s recognition begins to unfold.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Journey to Emmaus" [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 381. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-380
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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 Journey to Emmaus. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 381. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-380