Paolo Priolo, ‘Christian and Faithful enter the Town of Vanity’. Circa 1865. 20 x 12 cm. Pen on paper, unsigned. From the Collection of Leonardo Mancioli, Rome, and reproduced with his kind permission. This is a preparatory drawing for the wood-engraved illustration appearing in an edition of Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin [1865]), 121. The drawing is in the Raphaelesque manner of the High Renaissance, rendering its subject in the heroic idiom.
Scanned image by Leonardo Mancioli, and text by Simon Cooke. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Created November 27 2022