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 by William Holmes and engraver-publisher John Warner Barber of New Haven, pairing small allegorical cuts with explanatory texts and reflections for Protestant readers and Sunday-school use. The wood engravings put frock-coated men on rocky ledges and storm-tossed islets beneath labelled bubbles, radiating light, and beckoning figures, offering compact scenes with hatched skies and legible captioned symbols.
