The Herd of Swine

[The Herd of Swine]

Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn) (1823-1909),

1886

“Photographed from the originals and printed in planotype”

Plate 18, Bible Beasts and Birds (Hathi Trust online version of a copy in the Getty Institute)

The artist’s initials appear at lower right

Following pages bear relevant texts from from Old and New Testaments in the following order: Luke VII 36-40, Leviticus XL 7-8, Isaiah LXV, to which Blackburn has added ll. 625-34 of the fourth book of Paradise Lost.

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