This painting is believed to be a depiction of the following scene in Charles Kingsley's 1853 novel Hypatia:
She shook herself free from her tormentors, and springing back, rose for one moment to her full height, naked, snow-white against the dusky mass around—shame and indignation in those wide clear eyes, but not a stain of fear. With one hand she clasped her golden locks around her; the other long white arm was stretched upward toward the great still Christ appealing—and who dare say in vain?—from man to God.
References
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Hypatia (1885). Oil on canvas, 244.5 x 152.5 cm (96.2 x 60 in). Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Ipazia, filosofa, matematica e astronoma di Alessandria d'Egitto. Olio su tela di Charles William Mitchell, 1885, Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle).