Gustave Doré1866
A Famine in Samaria
During the siege of Samaria the famine grows so severe that the desperate king tears his clothes when a starving woman cries out to him for help (2 Kings 6). A wood engraving from Gustave Doré's La Grande Bible de Tours (1866).
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About Gustave Doré
1832-1883 · French
Paul Gustave Doré was a prolific French illustrator whose 241 wood engravings for "La Grande Bible de Tours" (1866) became the most influential visual interpretation of scripture of the 19th century.