Art, Symbol & Imagination
Joseph Interpreting Pharaoh’s Dream
A young speaker raises his hand before a seated ruler in a vast hall of carved columns. The palace’s scale dwarfs the human group, yet Doré makes the speaker’s gesture the meeting’s focus. Repeated architectural patterns give the room an order that the interpretation will address. The caption identifies Joseph’s explanation of Pharaoh’s dream. The picture sets the act of speaking between personal vulnerability and royal power, allowing a small figure to redirect the attention of an immense court.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Joseph Interpreting Pharaoh’s Dream" [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 77. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-76
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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). Joseph Interpreting Pharaoh’s Dream. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 77. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-76