Several black and white drawings of light-skinned women in Grecian dress as personifications of words. Despair looks upward sorrowfully. Enthusiasm reaches out, eyes focused on her hand. Distraction holds a hand to her head and leans on Persuasion, who whispers in her ear. In "Persuasion repulsed", Distraction pulls away as Persuasion pleads with her.
Brewster, Ben, and Lea Jacobs. Fig 3.2 - Fig 3.5. Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film. 1997. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Citation
Engle, Johann Jakob. Practical illustrations of rhetorical gesture and action. Adapted by Henry Siddons. London, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822, pp. 347-349.