Woman in Sacred History / A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources

Mary the Mother of our Lord

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
Illustrated with Sixteen Chromo-Lithographs,
AFTER PAINTINGS BY RAPHAEL, BATONI, HORACE VERNET, GOODALL, LANDELLE, KOEHLER, PORTAËLS, VERNET-LECOMTE, BAADER, MERLE, AND BOULANGER: PRINTED BY MONROCQ, FROM STONES EXECUTED BY JEHENNE, PARIS.
NEW YORK: J. B. FORD AND COMPANY. 1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, BY J. B. FORD AND COMPANY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.


The notable characters among the women of Bible history present so attractive and variable a theme for pictorial representation, that they have been several times grouped in book form, both in Europe and America, within the past twenty years. The freshness of the present publication, therefore, consists not in the subject but in its mode of treatment.