Phillip Medhurst

A Pilgrimage to Truth

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Bowyer Bible print 2402 Tail-piece to 1 Chronicles. 1 Chronicles cap 22 v 14. Loutherbourg

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.

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329.1/402 The Chaldees destroy the brazen sea (2 Kings 25:13) drawing by James Tissot at the John Rylands Library file created by Phillip Medhurst: 329.2/402-the-chaldees-destroy-the-brazen-sea-2-kings-25:13-gouache-on-board-by-michel-simonidy-after-james-tissot-jewish-museum-new-york-presented-by-phillip-medhurst: The paintings were reproduced in “La Sainte Bible : Ancien Testament . . . / Compositions par J.-James Tissot” with preface by A. D. Sertillanges, introduction by M. de Brunoff […]