Reduced composition of a painting by Hogarth, cropped substantially on both sides: The pool of Bethesda after the Hogarth painting. 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 from painting which this is based., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil on page above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit, p. 289., and Formerly on page 144 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Publisher:
publisher not identitfied
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ,
Subject (Topic):
Bethesda, Pool of., Biblical events, Diseases, Healing, Miracles, People with disabilities, and Sexually transmitted diseases
Jackson, John Baptist, 1701-1780?, printmaker, artist, publisher
Published / Created:
[1742]
Call Number:
742.00.00.18++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Left plate of a triptych; a procession of people, left to right, with two pairs of men in the foreground, a bearded man to left, giving a coin to a woman who carries a child, another man standing behind him, under the arches of a large building, a woman on the right, looking eagerly ahead; mountains and a pyramidical obelisk in the background."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Opus hoc admiratione sane dignum, cunctorumque ...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger based on title of original painting by Titian., Place of publication based on known location of J.B. Jackson., Six lines of Latin text in lower left corner of image: Opus hoc admiratione sane dignum, cunctorumq[ue] ..., and One of a series of twenty-four chiaroscuro woodcuts after seventeen paintings in Venice: Opera selectiora. For description of series, see British Museum online cat. registration number: 1918,0713.28.
Holy Family seated before a steep hill in a landscape with lush trees. Mary with a gold halo holds the infant savior on her lap. Joseph sits to her proper right. The young St. John the Baptist standing to Mary’s proper left extends his hand with and offering for the infant. Flanking the group, winged putti gather flowers and pet a sheep. A pile of fruit lies before them. In the left foreground is a body of water. Buildings are visible in the left distance
Alternative Title:
Holy Family, in a landscape and Holy family, with boys and angels, in a landscape
Description:
Title devised by curator., Label on front of frame: Avont Pieter van 1600-1652., Attributed by Horace Walpole to Pieter Van Artois. Now attributed by curator to Antwerp School, first half of the 17th century., Text from 1774 Description: East end: ... Holy family, with boy angels, in a landscape; by Van Artois, scholar of Rubens: from Sir Robert Walpole's collection. Formerly hung in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., and Title from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: The Holy Family, in a Landscape. St. John is seen presenting fruit to the Infant Saviour, with Angels fondling a Lamb and gathering fruit and flowers, a highly finished and exquisite specimen of the art, the colours most brilliant and in fine preservation, on copper, by Van Artois, a pupil of Rubens. From Sir Robert Walpole's collection.
A painting on metal showing Tobias with an angel; on the right a view of the landscape, beyond a large rock in the foreground. According to the story in the Book of Tobit (5.5-6) Tobit's son Tobias meets an angel without realising he is an angel. The angel tells Tobias what to do with a giant fish that Tobias has caught (Book of Tobit, 6.2-9).
