Religious allegories : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity ...
An emblem book of 1848, compiled by William Holmes and John Warner Barber and published by Henry Howe in Cincinnati, pairing wood-engraved scenes with verses and commentary for American Protestant readers and preachers. The cuts stage moral lessons as small dramas: drowning figures reaching up through ice and water, a crowd massed on a cliff edge under smoke, a man labelled LIBERTY on a riverbank, travellers on a narrow mountain path, all in coarse black line with heavy hatched skies usable as silhouettes and captioned vignettes.
