Phillip Medhurst
A Pilgrimage to Truth
Tag: Loutherbourg
Image | Jan 19, 2026
https://www.flickr.com/gp/phillipmedhurst/n85qC9qe77
https://archive.org/details/vignettes-by-loutherbourg-for-the-macklin-bible-the-torah
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.
Image | Jan 19, 2026
https://www.flickr.com/gp/phillipmedhurst/n85qC9qe77
https://archive.org/details/vignettes-by-loutherbourg-for-the-macklin-bible-the-torah
Image | Jan 19, 2026
https://www.flickr.com/gp/phillipmedhurst/n85qC9qe77
https://archive.org/details/vignettes-by-loutherbourg-for-the-macklin-bible-the-torah
Image | Jan 19, 2026
https://www.flickr.com/gp/phillipmedhurst/n85qC9qe77
https://archive.org/details/vignettes-by-loutherbourg-for-the-macklin-bible-the-torah
Image | Jan 19, 2026
https://www.flickr.com/gp/phillipmedhurst/n85qC9qe77
https://archive.org/details/vignettes-by-loutherbourg-for-the-macklin-bible-the-torah
Image | Jan 18, 2026
https://www.flickr.com/gp/phillipmedhurst/n85qC9qe77
https://archive.org/details/vignettes-by-loutherbourg-for-the-macklin-bible-the-torah
Feb 17, 2016
THE LAST ENEMY
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.
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