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Description: | Engraving . This work is described in detail within ‘How to Make it as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present’ (2004) by Alison Booth. Booth points out that the penal reformer and philanthropist Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) is here represented as though she were a saint, sitting in the best-lit, focal point of the painting, beneath a cross-pattern lantern. She wears Quaker clothing and has one palm open, while the other hand rests on a bible. The bible is propped up on a table, with a white cloth beneath it, making the table seem altar-like. In the foreground, two boys fight over a game of cards, while to the right, a woman whispers to another, who holds a bottle of alcohol. | Subjects: | genre Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney) reading public interior 19th century costume bottle prisoner lantern chair female portrait prison window woman prison reform baby boy man | Temporal: | 1863 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Thomas Oldham Barlow (Engraver) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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