Art, Symbol & Imagination
The waters of renewed strength
A traveller bends down beside the stream while a seated guide and a group of women watch within a wooded clearing. Another figure waits farther back. The printed caption describes a draught whose sweetness has never satisfied the narrator before. At the close of Purgatory, the waters of Eunoe restore the memory of good. Doré holds this final renewal in an intimate forest scene, with clustered witnesses surrounding the small act at the water’s edge.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The waters of renewed strength" [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 195. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/dante-dore-194
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Source plate inspected individually; printed canto and lines checked independently of binding position. Editorial title; original scan tone retained.
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Gustave Doré (design). The waters of renewed strength. Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante. Scan leaf 195. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/dante-dore-194