The pool of Bethesda [graphic] : engraved from the original picture painted by Willm. Hogarth Esqr on the stair case in St. Bartholomew's Hospital / Willm. Hogarth pinixit ; Ravenet & Picot sculpserunt.
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Lewis Walpole Library > The pool of Bethesda [graphic] : engraved from the original picture painted by Willm. Hogarth Esqr on the stair case in St. Bartholomew's Hospital / Willm. Hogarth pinixit ; Ravenet & Picot sculpserunt.
Description
- Title
- The pool of Bethesda [graphic] : engraved from the original picture painted by Willm. Hogarth Esqr on the stair case in St. Bartholomew's Hospital / Willm. Hogarth pinixit ; Ravenet & Picot sculpserunt.
- Creator
- Ravenet, Simon François, 1706-1774
- Contributor
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Boydell, John, 1720-1804
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Picot, Victor Marie, 1744-1805 - Published / Created
- [24 February 1772]
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Publisher
- Published Feby. 24th 1772 by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
- Abstract
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As described in the Gospel of St John, Chapter V, Christ is shown healing the sick beside the Pool of Bethesda, as an angel observes from above. At the center Christ reaches out to a crippled man who sits beside the Pool of Bethesda, shown here with an ulcer on his leg. Among the others looking for cures is a girl with Down's Syndrome (?), a woman with consumption or tuberculosis; a blind man with a stick; a man with jaundice (or melancholia or depression); a bearded man with gout and a distressed woman beside him with an injured breast; a child in the foreground carries a crutch. In the background, a servant of a naked woman pushes aside a mother with a sick baby. The mistress is most probably suffering from gonorrhea, as indicated by the rashes on her skin. Finally, in the foreground on the extreme right a pitiful man with an emaciated face full of pain and a hand on his swollen abdomen uses a crutch to approach the pool.
- Description
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"Size of the picture, 13f, 8i by 20f, 3i in length."--Lower left, below volume number.
"St. John Chp. V."--Lower right.
"Vol. II, No. 57"--Lower left.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title engraved below image. - Extent
- 1 print : engraving with etching on laid paper ; sheet 47.6 x 57 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Kinnaird 67K Box 320
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- still image
- Genre
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Engravings -- England -- London -- 1772
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1772 - Resource Type
- Prints & Photographs
- Subject (Name)
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Boydell, John, 1720-1804
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Picot, Victor Marie, 1744-1805 - Subject (Topic)
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Bethesda, Pool of
Biblical events
Diseases
Healing
Jesus Christ [[depicted
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Miracles
People with disabilities
Sexually transmitted diseases
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9877920
- Object ID (OID)
- 16030656