Religious or mythological place of (often eternal) suffering
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The identification of the wicked and their descent into hell. Engraving by A. Collaert.
Adriaen CollaertDate: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 2027433iPart of: Sacred and secular subjects. Album of engravings and drawings.
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Dante and Virgil watching heretics in hell ripping their bodies apart as punishment for schism. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
Bartolomeo PinelliDate: 1825Reference: 661783iPart of: Episodes in Dante's Divine comedy. Etchings by B. Pinelli, 1824-1826.
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A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.
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A vision of hell, and a discovery of some of the consultations and devices there in the year 1767 By Theodorus Van Shemain. [Eleven lines of Scripture texts].
Green, Jacob 1722-1790.Date: 1770- E-books
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An enquiry into the nature and place of hell . Shewing I. The Reasonableness of a Future State. II. The Punishments of the next Life. III. The several Opinions concerning the Place of Hell. IV. That the Fire of Hell is not metaphorical, but real. V. The Improbability of that Fire's being in, or about the Center of the Earth. VI. The Probability of the Sun's being the Local Hell, with Reasons for this Conjecture; and the Objections from Atheism, Philosophy, and the Holy Scriptures, answered. By Tobias Swinden, M. A. Late Rector of Cuxton in Kent.
Swinden, Tobias 1659-1719.Date: 1727