Bowyer Bible print 2924 Head-piece to Hosea. Hosea cap 8 v 5. Loutherbourg Phillip Medhurst photo

by Bowyer Bible

Bowyer Bible print 2924 Head-piece to Hosea. Hosea cap 8 v 5. Loutherbourg Phillip Medhurst photo

Robert Bowyer (d.1834) expanded his Macklin Bible with over 6200 prints. He acquired de Loutherbourg’s drawings for the Macklin vignettes and pasted them into his grangerised Bible. The Bowyer Bible is now in Bolton Museum. For a presentation see archive.org/details/bowyer-bible
where flip-books have been created from Phillip Medhurst’s photos.