Art, Symbol & Imagination
Paul’s Shipwreck
A standing figure raises an arm upon a rocky shore while people struggle out of the water and the broken vessel remains visible beyond. Doré gives the foreground to survivors and rough stone, with the sea’s continuing force surrounding the small foothold they have reached. The upright body provides a strong point of orientation among the low and climbing figures. The printed caption identifies Paul’s shipwreck. The illustration selects arrival at land from the voyage in Acts, placing survival in the relation between exhausted bodies, breaking water and the precarious edge of the shore.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Paul’s Shipwreck" [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 409. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-408
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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’s Shipwreck. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 409. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-408