Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Destruction of Sodom
Lot presses forward with a daughter on either arm while his wife stands alone behind them, looking towards the burning city. The accompanying text explicitly identifies the pale stationary figure as Lot’s wife. Doré separates her from the tightly joined fleeing group, making distance and direction carry the narrative. Dark clouds spread above the fire, while the open foreground becomes a narrow space between escape and destruction.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Destruction of Sodom" [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 41. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-40
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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 Destruction of Sodom. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 41. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-40