Phillip Medhurst

A Pilgrimage to Truth

Tag: Laban

Image | Jan 10, 2026

THE TORAH IN THE BOWYER BIBLE. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834) expanded his own copy of the Macklin Bible to 45 volumes after acquiring and inserting over 6200 different prints of Biblical events. The Bowyer Bible is now housed in Bolton Museums and Archives. For a presentation of many of these prints see https://archive.org/details/bowyer-bible
where Philip De Vere has created flip-books from Phillip Medhurst’s collection of photos.

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Image | May 27, 2022
014 Jacob tending Laban's sheep

Jacob tending Laban’s sheep. Painting. Location unknown.

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Image | May 27, 2022
013 Jacob tending Laban's sheep.

Jacob tending Laban’s sheep. Lithograph after the original drawing of the same subject by Benjamin West in the Prints Division of the New York Public Library, which is signed and dated, “B. West 1783”. (The lithograph was possibly intended for inclusion in the album “Specimens of Polyautography of 1803”.) Morgan Museum and Library, New York.

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