Art, Symbol & Imagination
Hagar in the Wilderness
A woman sits against a massive rock while a child lies stretched upon the open ground. A small vessel rests between them in the otherwise barren foreground. Doré makes the rock both shelter and enclosure, its immense surface dwarfing the two vulnerable bodies. The caption identifies Hagar's wilderness ordeal. The clear separation between the seated mother and the recumbent child gives the scene its emotional tension: both occupy the same refuge, but neither can relieve the other's exposure through proximity alone.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Hagar in the Wilderness" [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 49. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-48
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Original source design and caption inspected; composition retained with scan margins trimmed. No reconstructed or recoloured details.
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Gustave Doré (design). Hagar in the Wilderness. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 49. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-48