Art, Symbol & Imagination
Eliezer and Rebekah
A woman holding a tall water vessel faces a kneeling elder beside stone steps. Camels and attendants wait beneath trees beyond their meeting. The vessel connects the foreground exchange to the practical act of drawing water, rather than to a royal ceremony. The printed caption names Eliezer and Rebekah. Doré places their encounter within the activity of a travelling household, leaving the distant animals visible while concentrating the narrative on the two figures' contrasting levels and directed attention.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Eliezer and Rebekah" [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 61. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-60
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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). Eliezer and Rebekah. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 61. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-60