CHRISTIAN - CHRIST & HELL Engraving by Michael Burghers depicting Christ liberating sinners from the mouth of Hell. This is the famous fold-out engraving, 'Hearne's Print of the Descent into Hell', used in William Hone, Ancient Mysteries Described, Especially he English Miracle Plays, 1823. The engraving is of importance because the lexicographer, Dr. Johnson, took the word arognt issuing from the mouth of the right-hand devil, as an authority for the word aroint - which word appears twice in Shakespeare.

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