The Man with the Muck Rake by William Strang, Eng., (1859-1921)

Etching, 1885, from The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan, published in 1895 John C. Nimmo, Ref. #85, final state, 7 x 5, on cream wove vellum paper, signed in pencil, some toning within mat opening. Strang's eloquent visioning of this moralistic and cautionary tale. Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech titled The Man with the Muck Rake in 1906... Some things never change...