Art, Symbol & Imagination
Paul at Ephesus: The Burning of the Books
A raised speaker addresses a dense company beside a monumental building while books and objects are brought towards a fire in the foreground. Doré joins public address to material activity below, letting the smoke pass between the two regions of the scene. The gathered people are varied in posture rather than reduced to a repeated mass. The printed caption identifies Paul at Ephesus. The design depicts the episode of abandoned magical books from Acts, joining the speaker’s raised position to the material activity of the gathered company.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Paul at Ephesus: The Burning of the Books" [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 401. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-400
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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). Paul at Ephesus: The Burning of the Books. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 401. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-400