Art, Symbol & Imagination
Bowing before the Angelic Pilot
One traveller kneels beside a standing guide as a winged pilot approaches across the water. Virgil recognises the approaching heavenly minister and tells Dante to bend his knees and fold his hands. The plate separates the travellers on their rocky shore from the luminous boat farther out at sea. The pilot's raised wings and the kneeling figure make recognition visible through posture. Although this illustration is bound beside later text in the supplied volume, its printed Canto II caption establishes the episode and is retained in the source reference.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Bowing before the Angelic Pilot" [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 23. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/dante-dore-22
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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). Bowing before the Angelic Pilot. Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante. Scan leaf 23. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/dante-dore-22