Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Burial of Sarah
A company carrying a covered body moves towards a shadowed opening in a rock face. The bright space around the entrance draws attention to the bearers while the surrounding stone makes the route feel enclosed. Doré arranges the procession as a slow line whose direction is difficult to reverse. The caption identifies Sarah’s burial, and the plate gives that transition the weight of bodies supporting another body. The scene’s gravity comes from shared labour rather than a single commanding gesture.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Burial of Sarah" [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 57. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-56
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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 Burial of Sarah. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 57. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-56