Note 35 to Chapter 8 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
These monitory images include "a remarkable series of pictures representing the Prodigal Son in the costume of Sir Charles Grandison: (I, 4:43), and "a dreadful picture" of a witch's trial by water (I, 3:21). The former is an English version of one of the favorite moral themes of Dutch and Flemish genre painting, and the latter is "Ducking a Witch,' drawn by G. M. Brighty and engraved by T. Wallis for a new edition of Daniel Defoe's Satan's Devices: or the Political History of the Devil: Ancient and Modern (London: T. Kelley, 1819), p. 229.
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