Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Travellers Emerge beneath the Stars
Two small robed figures stand on a rocky height beneath a wide night sky, with uneven ground and distant peaks below. The final line of Inferno returns the travellers to the sight of stars after the confined passage out of the depths. Doré gives most of the plate to the open sky and reduces the figures to quiet silhouettes on the ridge. This changes the visual scale from Lucifer’s crowded darkness to space and distance. The image completes this volume’s journey but does not depict the later ascent of Purgatorio. Its source tone and worn printing are retained rather than replaced with newly generated night-sky effects.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Travellers Emerge beneath the Stars" [editorial title]. In Dante's Inferno, Dante Alighieri. New Edition, undated supplied scan, undated edition, Thompson & Thomas. Source scan leaf 241. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/inferno-dore-234
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Full original plate and caption individually inspected; neighbouring canto read. Editorial title. Source tone and intrinsic damage retained; rotation applies only to Gallery derivatives.
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Gustave Doré (design). The Travellers Emerge beneath the Stars. Dante's Inferno. Scan leaf 241. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/inferno-dore-234