The beheading of Christopher Love on Tower Hill, London, in 1651. Engraving with etching and letterpress.

Date:
[1651?]
Reference:
43471i
  • Pictures
  • Online

Available online

view The beheading of Christopher Love on Tower Hill, London, in 1651. Engraving with etching and letterpress.

Public Domain Mark

You can use this work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law. Read more about this licence.

Credit

The beheading of Christopher Love on Tower Hill, London, in 1651. Engraving with etching and letterpress. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Selected images from this work

View 1 image

About this work

Description

The Tower of London is shown in the background. Clouds above Christopher Love have opened revealing an angel about to confer on him the martyr's wreath and palm

Christopher Love (1618-1651) was a puritan minister who was ordered to be arrested in May 1651 for high treason. He was tried before High Court and condemned to be exceuted. Subsequently Love was reprieved for a month and then again for a week but was finally executed on Tower Hill on 22 August 1651

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1651?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching and letterpress ; image 14 x 18.4 cm, image and letterpress 42.5 x 32.5 cm

Lettering

De laeste redenen of oratie, van Mr. Christopher Love predicant van de ware gereformeerde religie, gedaen op het schavot op Touwerhil den 1. September 1651 en is volgens sijn verklaringheter onschult gedoodt ... Getrouwelijck uyt het engels in onse nederlantsche taale overgeset. The image is surrounded by extensive letterpress in Dutch reciting the last statement of Christopher Love

Reference

Wellcome Collection 43471i

Type/Technique

Languages

Subjects

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores

Permanent link