Abraham Amfukuza Hajiri

Gustave Doré · 1866 (designs for La Sainte Bible, Tours); this printing 1873–1874
Maktaba ya Taifa ya Poland, Warsaw

Picha tulivu kati ya zile zenye mvuto mkubwa: maumbo manne katika mwanga hafifu wa asubuhi, yamechorwa kwa mikunjo mirefu inayoanguka. Mchoro ni wa Doré kwa ajili ya Biblia ya Tours ya mwaka 1866; mchongaji alitia sahihi chini upande wa kulia.

Abraham, mwenye ndevu nyeupe na akiegemea fimbo ndefu, anaonyesha njia. Hajiri anaondoka na mtungi mrefu begani, chozi shavuni, na mvulana Ishmaeli ameshika vazi lake. Nyuma yao, hemani, Sara ameketi na mtoto mdogo mikononi. Mitende inaonyesha ukingo wa jangwa.

Kutoka maandiko

“Abraham akaamka asubuhi na mapema” (Mwanzo 21:14)

Akachukua “mkate na kiriba cha maji, akampatia Hajiri, akiweka juu ya bega lake” (Mwanzo 21:14)

Akamuondoa pamoja na kijana (Mwanzo 21:14)

Ubunifu wa msanii

Sara pamoja na Isaka mdogo hemani, akitazama — hayupo katika mstari huu

Mtungi wa udongo badala ya kiriba cha maji

Mkono wa Abraham unaoonyesha njia, unaolipa tukio ishara yake

Maelezo ya karibu

Abraham

Mzee mwenye ndevu ndefu nyeupe anaonyesha njia kwa mkono wake wa kuume.

Hajiri na mtungi

Amebeba mtungi mrefu begani; chozi linatiririka shavuni mwake.

Ishmaeli

Mvulana ameshika vazi la mama yake.

Sara

Hemani mwanamke ameketi na mtoto mdogo mikononi mwake.

Gustave Doré, French, 1832–1883. National Library of Poland (Biblioteka Narodowa), Warsaw — «Pismo Święte Starego i Nowego Testamentu», vol. 1, Warsaw: M. Glücksberg, 1873 (acc. 75.267 A), tabl. 14 · Wood engraving after Gustave Doré’s design · National Library of Poland (Polona): the record of the volume gives the licence «Domena Publiczna» (Public Domain), «copyrightProtected»: false; the scan was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by the library itself («Polona Upload», GLAM-Wiki partnership: “This file was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of a GLAM-Wiki partnership between the National Library of Poland and Wikimedia Polska”), linking its Polona record.