Art, Symbol & Imagination
The War against Gibeon
An armed company gathers across a rocky height while a commanding figure points towards the distant sky. Doré spreads the soldiers and their shields across the foreground, giving the great landscape a human scale. The clouded horizon opens above them rather than forming a wall to be breached. The printed caption identifies the war against Gibeon, from Joshua’s campaign. The illustration gives the narrative’s battle and extraordinary celestial setting a shared field of action, while retaining the individually varied postures of the waiting company.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The War against Gibeon" [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 89. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-88
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
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 War against Gibeon. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 89. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-88