Yona Atapikwa na Samaki

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

Jonnard alichonga mchoro huu; jina lake limechongwa chini upande wa kulia. Doré anaijenga picha juu ya tofauti: anga jeusi na maji meusi juu, na ukanda angavu wa mawimbi na ufuo chini, mahali hadithi inapoishia.

Yona, aliyetapikwa ufuoni, anashikilia mteremko wa ufuo, joho lake limelowa na nywele zake zimepeperushwa nyuma. Nyuma yake samaki mkubwa anarudi baharini, mkia wake umejikunja juu ya maji na mfereji maradufu wa maji ukipanda kutoka kichwani mwake. Mawingu ya dhoruba bado yananing’inia kwenye upeo wa macho.

Kutoka maandiko

“Bwana akanena na samaki” (Yona 2:10)

“Akamtapika Yona juu ya nchi kavu” (Yona 2:10)

Yona alikuwa ndani ya samaki siku tatu mchana na usiku (Yona 1:17)

Ubunifu wa msanii

“Samaki mkubwa” amechorwa kama nyangumi anayepuliza maji, kama wasomaji wengi wa wakati huo walivyowaza

Mawingu ya dhoruba, ingawa dhoruba katika hadithi ilikuja kabla Yona hajamezwa

Yona amevaa nguo kamili, joho lake bado liko mwilini

Maelezo ya karibu

Yona

Anashika mchanga anapojivuta kupanda ufuoni.

Samaki

Mgongo mkubwa sana mweusi unageuka kurudi baharini.

Mfereji wa maji

Mifereji miwili ya maji iliyopinda inapanda kutoka kichwani mwa samaki.

Mawimbi

Povu angavu linavunjika ufuoni.

Gustave Doré, French, 1832–1883. National Library of Poland (Biblioteka Narodowa), Warsaw — «Pismo Święte Starego i Nowego Testamentu», vol. 2, Warsaw: M. Glücksberg, 1874 (acc. 75.267 A) · 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.