Phillip Medhurst

Wisdom from a Gnostic Sage

Tag: Loutherbourg

tabula emblematica verbi dei scripti publicata pro requie animae Oliver Medhurst 1973-2025

https://www.flickr.com/gp/phillipmedhurst/n85qC9qe77

https://archive.org/details/vignettes-by-loutherbourg-for-the-macklin-bible-the-torah

tabula emblematica verbi dei scripti publicata pro requie animae Oliver Medhurst 1973-2025

https://www.flickr.com/gp/phillipmedhurst/n85qC9qe77

https://archive.org/details/vignettes-by-loutherbourg-for-the-macklin-bible-the-torah

tabula emblematica verbi dei scripti publicata pro requie animae Oliver Medhurst 1973-2025

https://www.flickr.com/gp/phillipmedhurst/n85qC9qe77

https://archive.org/details/vignettes-by-loutherbourg-for-the-macklin-bible-the-torah

tabula emblematica verbi dei scripti publicata pro requie animae Oliver Medhurst 1973-2025

https://www.flickr.com/gp/phillipmedhurst/n85qC9qe77

https://archive.org/details/vignettes-by-loutherbourg-for-the-macklin-bible-the-torah

tabula emblematica verbi dei scripti publicata pro requie animae Oliver Medhurst 1973-2025

https://www.flickr.com/gp/phillipmedhurst/n85qC9qe77

https://archive.org/details/vignettes-by-loutherbourg-for-the-macklin-bible-the-torah

tabula emblematica verbi dei scripti publicata pro requie animae Oliver Medhurst 1973-2025

https://www.flickr.com/gp/phillipmedhurst/n85qC9qe77

https://archive.org/details/vignettes-by-loutherbourg-for-the-macklin-bible-the-torah

THE LAST ENEMY

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This is a photo of De Loutherbourg’s original drawing pasted into the Bowyer Bible, a grangerized version of the Macklin Bible.

Bowyer Bible 43.6063/6064. Tail-piece to the first epistle of Paul the apostle to the Corinthians, vignette with sword slicing through a skull with snake in mouth. See 1 Corinthians 15:26. The print: letterpress in two columns above and on verso. 1800. Inscriptions: Lettered below image with production detail: “P J de Loutherbourg RA inv et del”, “J. Heath direx” and publication line: “Published by T Macklin June 17 1800”. Print made by James Heath. Dimensions: Height: 487 millimetres; width: 390 millimetres.

From a collection of photographs of the Bowyer Bible in Bolton Museum, England curated by Phillip Medhurst.

Phillip Medhurst