Volume 1
The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art : with that of His types, St. John the Baptist, and other persons of the Old and New Testament / commenced by the late Mrs. Jameson ; continued and completed by Lady Eastlake.
- Anna Brownell Jameson
- Date:
- 1865
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art : with that of His types, St. John the Baptist, and other persons of the Old and New Testament / commenced by the late Mrs. Jameson ; continued and completed by Lady Eastlake. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A.JJ] ritan. 3. Labourers in the Vineyard. 4. The Blind leading the Blind. 5. The Lost Sheep found. 6. The Lost Piece of Silver. 7. The Unmerciful Servant. 8. The Blind and the Lame are bidden to the Feast. (Dresden Gallery, No. 76-86). 138 Lost Drachm. (Domenico Feti. Pitti). These little compositions are, in execution, light, spirited, and well coloured, but conceived in the most literal and prosaic style. For in- stance, in the sixth parable—the Lost Drachm (woodcut. No. 138)— the scene is the interior of a hovel; a woman, groping with a lamp (or a candle, I forget which), after seeking everywhere for her piece of silver, finds it between the chinks of her floor. In the Greek picture of the same parable, the scene is Paradise. The angels, archangels, and saints, are seated on golden thrones, but one throne](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24876239_0001_0439.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
