Art, Symbol & Imagination
The dream of Leah gathering flowers
A young woman bends among flowers beside a slender tree, holding a small gathering of blossoms. Leaves, stems and pale light fill the quietly enclosed woodland space. The Purgatory XXVII caption identifies the scene as a dream of a woman gathering flowers. Doré gives the vision a gentle, practical action rather than a monumental apparition. The body's slight bend repeats the movement of the surrounding vegetation, joining the figure to the place she tends. The soft tonality belongs to the source print and sustains the distinction between this inward dream and the harder rocky stages of the ascent.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The dream of Leah gathering flowers" [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 160. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/dante-dore-159
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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). The dream of Leah gathering flowers. Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante. Scan leaf 160. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/dante-dore-159