Art, Symbol & Imagination
Sisera Slain by Jael
A woman stands inside a tent beside a fallen figure, with tools held low near her body. The open entrance gives a distant view beyond the close, shadowed interior. Doré presents the aftermath as stillness rather than the movement of the fatal act, keeping attention on the standing woman and the body below her. The caption names Jael and Sisera. The tent’s enclosing folds make the encounter intimate and disturbing, contrasting private shelter with the violence the narrative places within it.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Sisera Slain by Jael" [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 93. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-92
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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). Sisera Slain by Jael. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 93. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-92