Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Wicket-Gate

"The Wicket-gate constitutes one of the main features of the great Dreamer's Allegory. It is an end, and it is a beginning. It concludes the Pilgrim's search for the better path, and inaugurates his entrance upon the King's highway—the way of holiness. It closes upon the weary wilderness of doubt and ignorance in which he wandered, wept, and trembled, and opens upon the road that conducts all faithful pilgrims to the Celestial City."[1]
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Sources

1. Rev. Robert Maguire, Notes. The Pilgrim's Progress. By John Bunyan. London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, c1863.
2. John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress.

Illlustrations

Artists:
1. Henry Courtney Selous (1803 - 1890).
2. M. Paolo Priolo.

Engravers:
1. William James Linton (1812 - 1897).
2. Léon Louis Chapon (1836 - 1918).