Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Dream of the Eagle
An immense eagle carries a cloaked figure through a bright region of cloud. Spread feathers and the traveller’s bent limbs create a diagonal ascent. The printed verse identifies Dante’s dream of being caught up into fire. Doré gives a visionary passage the bodily urgency of flight: the bird’s claws and the suspended human body make transport feel forceful, while the luminous opening separates the dream’s height from the ordinary mountain path.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Dream of the Eagle" [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 58. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/dante-dore-57
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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 Dream of the Eagle. Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante. Scan leaf 58. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/dante-dore-57