Piety

Charles Bennett

1860

Wood engraving; engraved by Joseph Swain

4 x 3½ inches

Illustration for Bunyan’sThe Pilgrim’s Progress, facing p. 52.

Another example of Bennett’s talent for characterisation, this time inscribing moral goodness in the features of a woman’s face. [continues below]

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