Title: The penitent.
Artist: after William Etty (English, 1787 – 1849)
Engraver: Frederick Bacon (1803 - 1887).
Description: Antique steel engraving on thick wove paper after the original painting by master engraver.
A young woman sitting with her hands crossed over her breast, holding up her garment, looking up, with an open book propped against a skull and Crucifix on the rock beside her, a gnarled tree behind to right.
Size: 23,8x32 cms.
Production date: 1849.