H Beard Print Collection
1850
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1850
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
H Beard Print Collection is a 1850 by Virtue & Co., held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a map-style guide to a journey. It’s an old print from the 1800s, made by Virtue & Co. You’d call it a frontispiece—basically an illustrated title page—because it was printed for a book. The map isn’t just roads—it’s the path from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. That’s straight from The Pilgrim’s Progress, a famous story about faith and travel. Check out the 19th-century print collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A hand-colored etched and aquatinted print from 1850 illustrates the "Plan of the Road from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City," serving as the frontispiece to Virtue & Co.'s edition of *The Pilgrim's Progress*.
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Virtue & Co. made late-19th-century prints in London, often crisp line engravings of everyday scenes. Their H Beard Print Collection (ca. 1900) collects folks at work and play in sharp black-and-white—think street…
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