"In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an……" — George Frederic Watts

In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul,… - George Frederic Watts
"In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.’ Here [in Watts painting], Hope is blindfolded, seated on a globe and playing a lyre of which all but one of the strings are broken . . . Hope’s attempts to make music appear futile and several critics argued that the work might have been more appropriately titledDespair. Watts explained that ‘Hopeneed not mean expectancy. It suggests here, rather, the music which can come from the remaining cord’."

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