The contrite heart is tormented by Grief and Fear, but secured by Faith and Hope, while Love wounds it with one hand and soothes it with another; above, the Tetragrammaton, and below, the portrait of John Hayward in a roundel. Engraving by T. Cecill, 1636, after W. Hole.

  • Hole, William, -1624.
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567558i
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The contrite heart is tormented by Grief and Fear, but secured by Faith and Hope, while Love wounds it with one hand and soothes it with another; above, the Tetragrammaton, and below, the portrait of John Hayward in a roundel. Engraving by T. Cecill, 1636, after W. Hole. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London (at the east end of Christ Church) : Printed by Elizabeth Purslow, 1636.

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1 print : engraving ; image 12.7 x 7.3 cm

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The sanctuarie of a troubled soule ... Faith ; Hope ; Griefe ; Feare ; A contrite heart ; Flye from evel ; Doe good ; T. Cecil sculp.

References note

A. M. Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, Cambridge 1952-1964, part 3. The reign of Charles I by M. Corbett & M. Norton, p. 41 (by Thomas Cecill, fl. 1625-1640)

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Wellcome Collection 567558i

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