Phillip Medhurst

A Pilgrimage to Truth

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Image | May 21, 2026
004 The adoration of the shepherds Luke 2:16 Jan Luyken
Bowyer Bible print 4744

From: Jan Luyken “De Schriftuurlyke Geschiedenissen en Gelykenissen, Van het nieuwe verbond” (“The Scriptural Stories and Parables of the New Testament”) 1712

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 | Jul 30, 2022
08. Adoration of the Shepherds by Jorge Sanchez Hernandez

Jorge Sánchez Hernández [1926 – 2016] was a Mexican Catholic painter and continuator of the style of 17th century Spanish Baroque painters. Collections include: Portraits of Colonial Nuns; Scenes from Ancient Mexico; the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Collection; the Mother of Jesus Collection; the Gospel Scenes Collection; the Collection with scenes from the […]

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Image | May 28, 2022
040 The Nativity

The Nativity. c1796. Location unknown. Probably a studio painting based on the cartoon for the glass window made for the Royal Chapel at Windsor.

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Image | May 28, 2022
039 The Nativity

The Nativity. 1792. Oil and paper on canvas. Height: 497.8 cms (16.3 ft); width: 256.5 cms (100.9 ins). National Trust, Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex. For the window for St. George’s Chapel, Windsor which was installed in 1796. From 1779 to 1801 West was engaged in George III’s many alterations to Windsor Castle, and became […]

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Feb 20, 2016

Noel

 

Incandescent lamp-posts glow

Brightly through the shower of snow.

The tombstones, wet,

Reflect a flash

Of fake resuscitation.

The pale scene vaunts

Beauty unmarred,

Unstained by obscene flesh.

How perfect and pristine! –

Unspoilt by bestial notions

Of God dropped in the hay,

And livestock’s smoky breath

Set to thaw Death.

 

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