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.

Published/Created:

[London]
Published Feby. 24th 1772 by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
[24 February 1772]

Physical Description:

1 print : engraving with etching on laid paper ; sheet 47.6 x 57 cm

Notes:

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.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).

Abstract:

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.

Associated Names:

Ravenet, Simon François, 1706-1774 [Printmaker]
Boydell, John, 1720-1804 [Publisher]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]
Picot, Victor Marie, 1744-1805 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Bethesda, Pool of
Biblical events
Diseases
Healing
Jesus Christ [[depicted
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Miracles
People with disabilities
Sexually transmitted diseases

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1772
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1772

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Kinnaird 67K Box 320

Orbis Record:

9877920

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22331

OID:

16030656

PID:

digcoll:2807168