Moses and his brother Aaron before Pharaoh, their Rods turned into Serpents. 1796. Oil on canvas 148 x 115 ins. Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.A. War Memorial Chapel.
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A Pilgrimage to Truth
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Image | Jul 10, 2017
Phillip Medhurst presents 113/788 James Tissot Bible c 1899 The rod of Aaron devours the other rods Exodus 7:12. By a follower of (James) Jacques-Joseph Tissot, French, 1836-1902. Gouache on board.
Image | Jul 6, 2017
Phillip Medhurst presents 108/788 James Tissot Bible c 1899 Moses’ rod turned into a serpent Exodus 4:3 Jewish Museum New York. By a follower of (James) Jacques-Joseph Tissot, French, 1836-1902. Gouache on board.
Image | May 14, 2017
Phillip Medhurst presents 006/788 James Tissot Bible c 1899 Eve is tempted by the serpent Genesis 3:1-6 chromolithograph after painting in Jewish Museum New York
Image | Oct 10, 2016
https://archive.org/details/bowyer-bible THE APOSTLES 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-biblewhere Philip De […]
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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