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Concept

Faith

Images

  • A woman personifying faith, by the sea, holding a cross and a chalice. Coloured mezzotint, 17--.
  • A selection of four lead mortuary crosses, placed on the body of a plague victim, found on the site of the old Grey Friars Monastery, Newgate Street, Lonodn (replicas)
  • Rahab hangs the scarlet cord from her window. Autotype after F.J. Shields, 1877.
  • A selection of four lead mortuary crosses, placed on the body of a plague victim, found on the site of the old Grey Friars Monastery, Newgate Street, Lonodn (replicas)
  • A personification of faith with a cross, standing on a column, looking upwards and raising her right arm. Stipple engraving by G.S and J.G Facius, 1781, after Josiah Boydell after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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Catalogue

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    Of credulity and incredulity in things divine & spiritual : wherein (among other things) a true and faithful account is given of the Platonick philosophy, as it hath reference to Christianity : as also the business of witches and witchcraft, against a late writer, fully argued and disputed / by Merick Casaubon.

    Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671 | Date: 1670
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    A woman beleaguered by four enemies; representing Faith resisting Death, Schism, the World and the Devil. Engraving by Hieronymus Wierix after Maarten de Vos, 156-.

    Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603. | Date: [between 1560 and 1569?] | Reference: 26754i
    • Books

    Der Weihnachtsbaum und die medizinische Utopien : Volkskunde und Medizingeschichte / Eberhard Wolff.

    Wolff, Eberhard. | Date: 1994
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    The thinking peasant : popular and educated belief in pre-industrial culture / Christina Larner.

    Larner, Christina. | Date: [1982], ©1982
    • Digital Images
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    A selection of four lead mortuary crosses, placed on the body of a plague victim, found on the site of the old Grey Friars Monastery, Newgate Street, Lonodn (replicas)

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