Hope: woman with anchor and winged cherub – Antique Wall Art
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This historic image of Hope: woman with anchor and winged cherub brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Hope: woman with anchor and winged cherub
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The anchor is the detail that sets this picture apart. Artists have used it as a sign of hope since at least the New Testament, where the Letter to the Hebrews calls hope "an anchor of the soul." Pairing that emblem with a winged cherub, a small angelic child, was a familiar way to join divine comfort with human longing in religious and sentimental art of the 1800s. Such allegories were often reproduced as prints and cards, so they reached households far beyond the churches and studios that first made them. The cherub's wings and the steady anchor together suggest how a faith-based virtue could be made gentle and personal.
| Original scan | 609 × 968 px |
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| Reference | Angels088 |
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