Art, Symbol & Imagination
Lost sight of the woodland entrance
Two travellers walk beneath dense trees beside a stream, with a fallen trunk crossing the foreground. Dante has moved so far into the ancient wood that he can no longer see where he entered. The surrounding passage brings him to a clear stream and the sight of a singing woman beyond it. Doré concentrates here on enclosure: tall trunks and shadowed foliage make the path disappear around the walkers. The title follows this moment of lost orientation and does not identify the foreground log as a named sacred object. The dark source printing remains unchanged.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Lost sight of the woodland entrance" [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 169. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/dante-dore-168
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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). Lost sight of the woodland entrance. Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante. Scan leaf 169. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/dante-dore-168