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- Creator:
- Ravenet, Simon François, 1706-1774, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1748]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Alternative Title:
- There was at Jerusalem a pool call'd Bethesda, frequented by a multitude of impotent folk ...
- Description:
- Title from painting which this is based., Caption continues: "of blind, halt, & wither'd, to be cur'd by bathing, after an angel had troubled the waters; among whom was a certain man, that had been ill 38 years; but had no one to help him in, wherefore Jesus said unto him, rise, take up thy bed & walk. John Ch.V. Vers 2.8, Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note, and Formerly on page 144 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The pool of Bethesda] [graphic]