Art, Symbol & Imagination
Paul Escorted through the Crowd
Roman soldiers with spears and shields escort Paul along a raised passage while a crowded company reaches upward from the steps below. The architecture divides the organised movement of the guard from the pressure of the gathering. The source uses the historical caption Paul Menaced by the Jews for the episode in Acts. Doré gives the specific confrontation its force through the opposed directions of the guarded passage and the hands reaching towards it.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Paul Escorted through the Crowd" [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 405. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-404
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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). Paul Escorted through the Crowd. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 405. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-404