2-697-195 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Hetty Sorrel', c1902. A character in George Eliot's novel "Adam Bede". After discovering she is pregnant, Hetty kills the baby by abandoning it in a field, where it dies of exposure. She is caught and tried for child murder. From "The Nation's Pictures. A selection from the finest modern paintings in the public picture galleries of Great Britain, reproduced in colour". [Cassell and Company Ltd, London, c1902]