He caught her in his arms
Paul Gray
1865
Wood engraving by the Dalziels
6¾ x 4½ inches
Charles Kingsley’s Hereward the Wake, Good Words (1865): facing p.557.
Another of Gray’s dynamic illustrations, arranged in a vertical format and with strong dramatic contrasts between Hereward’s implacability and those below, who are described as ‘savages … howling round like curs around a bull’ (.p.557).
Scanned image and text by Simon Cooke.