Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Deliverance of Saint Peter
An angel stands beside Peter at a dark doorway above a short flight of stone steps. Armed guards remain low in shadow as the luminous pair moves towards the open night. Doré gives the threshold a narrow band of light, separating the two central figures from the surrounding masonry. The caption identifies Peter’s deliverance, turning the crossing from confinement into movement into the scene’s central action.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Deliverance of Saint Peter" [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 397. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-396
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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 Deliverance of Saint Peter. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 397. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-396