Faith

A woman representing Faith stands in a shadowed stone niche, looking downward with a pensive expression. She carries a large wooden cross over her shoulder and presents a communion chalice, while a diagram of the Holy Trinity appears on a shield in the upper right. The engraving uses sophisticated swelling lines to create volume and texture in the figure's heavy robes.

This engraving belongs to a series of the seven virtues that reflects the late 16th-century Dutch interest in the systematic categorization of moral and spiritual life. The inclusion of the 'Scutum Fidei' (Shield of Faith) diagram links the image to traditional mnemonic devices used to visualize the ontological mystery of the Trinity.