| Description | Print of engraving of Alexander Cruden, head and shoulders, in a wig. The engraved frame includes an open Bible and an open Concordance, a heraldic shield (ermine, three leopards' heads couped gardant proper on a chevron engrailed between three six-pointed mullets, with the motto 'Nihil desperandum Christo duce' (there is nothing to be despaired of with Christ as leader)). Below this is the title 'Alexander Cruden, M.A., Biblia Anchora est mea: Et Christus est mihi Anchora et Omnia' (The Bible is my anchor, and Christ is to me Anchor and All), as well as 'T. Fy ad vivum delineavit' and 'T. Kitchen sculpsit'.
Framed, mounted and glazed. Mount slightly foxed.
381 x 455 mm. [161 x 225mm.] |