As described in the Gospel of St. Luke Chapter X, verse 30, a Samaritan is shown ministering to a traveler who had been beaten, robbed, and left half dead along the road. A priest and a Levite who ignored the injured man are shown on the left in the background. On the right, the Samaritan's white horse is tethered to a branch near a stream; a waterfall flows from high cliffs also on the right. A second scene depicted on lower plate with caption: The Foundation Stone of this Hospital was laid by Rahere prior of the order of St. Augustin, in the II year of the reign of Henry 1st MCII in pursuance of a vow made to St. Bartholomew
Description:
Title and secondary, smaller image engraved on second plate below image of the Gospel scene., "Vol. II, No. 56"--Lower left., "Size of picture 13f, 8i by 16f, 9I, in length"--Lower left, below volume numbering., and "St. Luke Chap. X, ver. 30."--Lower right.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 24th 1772 by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside London
Subject (Name):
St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Biblical events, Charity, Horses, Parables, Priests, Robberies, and Waterfalls
As described in the Gospel of St. Luke Chapter X, verse 30, a Samaritan is shown ministering to a traveler who had been beaten, robbed, and left half dead along the road. A priest and a Levite who ignored the injured man are shown on the left in the background. On the right, the Samaritan's white horse is tethered to a branch near a stream; a waterfall flows from high cliffs also on the right. A second scene depicted on lower plate with caption: The Foundation Stone of this Hospital was laid by Rahere prior of the order of St. Augustin, in the II year of the reign of Henry 1st MCII in pursuance of a vow made to St. Bartholomew
Description:
Title and secondary, smaller image engraved on second plate below image of the Gospel scene., "Vol. II, No. 56"--Lower left., "Size of picture 13f, 8i by 16f, 9I, in length"--Lower left, below volume numbering., "St. Luke Chap. X, ver. 30."--Lower right., and 1 print : engraving and etching, on laid paper ; sheet 479 x 556 mm.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 24th 1772 by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside London
Subject (Name):
St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Biblical events, Charity, Horses, Parables, Priests, Robberies, and Waterfalls
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:
Title engraved below image., "Vol. II, No. 57"--Lower left., "Size of the picture, 13f, 8i by 20f, 3i in length."--Lower left, below volume number., "St. John Chp. V."--Lower right., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 24th 1772 by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ,
Subject (Topic):
Bethesda, Pool of., Biblical events, Diseases, Healing, Miracles, People with disabilities, and Sexually transmitted diseases
Detail from the painted frame of William Hogarth's painting of the Good Samaritan, engraved in 1772 for Boydell by Simon Francis Ravenet at the same time he engraved the painting
