Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Radiant Planet at Dawn
Two robed travellers stand above a shore beneath trees and a brightening sky. The caption identifies the planet associated with love, which brightens the eastern sky and veils the light of Pisces. Doré sets the travellers against a broad horizon and frames the light with dark branches. The composition gives the newly recovered open air a scale different from the confined underworld. The title describes the caption's celestial light without claiming that the engraving records an observed planetary position or supplying invented astronomical detail.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Radiant Planet at Dawn" [editorial title]. In Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante, Dante Alighieri; translated by Henry Francis Cary; illustrated by Gustave Doré. New edition, 1901, 1901, Thompson & Thomas. Source scan leaf 13. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/dante-dore-12
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Full plate and printed caption individually viewed. Matching canto passage read; misplaced bindings identified by caption, not physical adjacency. Original tone and printing wear retained.
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Gustave Doré (design). The Radiant Planet at Dawn. Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante. Scan leaf 13. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/dante-dore-12