Dalziel after Arthur Boyd Houghton, illustration for George Macdonald, ‘The Woman that was a Sinner’, in The Sunday Magazine

This illustration shows Mary Magdalen embracing the feet of Jesus, whose body is almost invisible at the corner of the image. Christian images in the Victorian Britain were innovative in portraying biblical characters and stories in Middle-Eastern settings, as opposed to the generic settings that had been used previously.
Dalziel after Arthur Boyd Houghton, illustration for George Macdonald, ‘The Woman that was a Sinner’, in The Sunday Magazine, Vol. VII (1870-1871). Dalziel Archive Vol. XXVI (1869-1870), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.187, print no. 277. By Permission of the Trustees of The British Museum. All Rights Reserved © Sylph Editions, 2016