Gustave Doré1866
Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness
When the water is gone in the desert of Beersheba, Hagar sets the boy beneath a shrub and weeps, until an angel shows her a well of water (Genesis 21). 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.