Bowyer Bible Prints: the Book of Revelation

Phillip Medhurst · 2016-04-16T00:00:00Z

BOWYER BIBLE PRINTS: THE BOOK OF REVELATION This image-collection contains prints illustrating the Book of Revelation in the Bowyer Bible in the sequence in which they are arranged in this grangerised version of the Macklin Bible. The artists represented here had no doubts about the historical veracity of the events delineated; this, together with their lack of the knowledge about historical dress and middle eastern topography which only became prevalent a hundred years after the creation of this collection makes the artworks curious as well as compelling. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834) spent a fortune on his own copy of the Macklin Bible which he expanded to 45 volumes after acquiring and inserting over 6200 different prints of Biblical events. He had a custom designed bookcase built just to house his collection; The Bowyer Bible is now housed in Bolton Museums and Archives who acquired it in 1948. These and many other of the illustrations have been made available online via social media by Phillip Medhurst (b.1948). The titles of the prints in this collection are as follows:- 01-war-in-heaven-revelation-cap-12-vv-7-12-perelle 02-the-harvest-of-the-world-revelation-cap-14-vv-14-20-perelle 03-the-seven-angels-revelation-cap-8-perelle 04-opening-the-seals-revelation-cap-6-v-9-11-mortiers-bible 05-opening-the-seals-revelation-cap-6-v-9-11-mortiers-bible 06-opening-the-seals-revelation-cap-6-vv-7-8-lindenberg 07-opening-the-seals-earthquakes-c-revelation-cap-6-vv-12-17-mortiers-bible 08-opening-the-seals-revelation-cap-8-v-1-5-mortiers-bible 09-great-plagues-follow-the-sound-of-the-trumpet-revelation-cap-8-v-11-hooghe 10-destruction-after-the-sounds-of-the-fifth-angel-revelation-cap-9-vv-1-12-scheits 11-four-angels-let-loose-revelation-cap-9-v-14-mortiers-bible 12-johns-vision-revelation-caps-8-9-mortiers-bible 13-an-angel-appears-with-a-book-revelation-cap-10-v-3-mortiers-bible 14-an-angel-and-the-great-red-dragon-revelation-cap-10-v-12-scheits 15-two-witnesses-to-be-unbound-revelation-cap-11-v-3-mortiers-bible 16-the-beast-shall-fight-aginst-them-revelation-cap-11-vv-7-12-merian 17-the-great-red-dragon-revelation-cap-12-v-1-5-vos 18-a-woman-clothed-with-the-sun-and-moon-revelation-cap-12-vv-1-5-ryley 19-michael-and-the-angel-revelation-12-v-7-9-scheits 20-michael-kills-satan-revelation-cap-12-vv-7-9-raphael 21-a-beast-with-seven-heads-c-revelation-13-scheits 22-the-lamb-on-mount-zion-revelation-cap-14-v-1-5-mortiers-bible 23-a-beast-with-seven-heads-c-revelation-cap-13-mortiers-bible 24-angel-preaching-the-everlasting-gospel-revelation-cap-14-v-6-ammon 25-the-angels-pour-out-their-vials-of-wrath-revelation-16-merian 26-an-angel-throws-a-mill-stone-into-the-sea-revelation-cap-18-vv-21-22-merian 27-the-woman-sitting-on-a-beast-revelation-17-v-3-hooghe 28-the-destruction-of-babylon-revelation-cap-18-mortiers-bible 29-satan-bound--for-1000-years-revelation-cap-20-v-1-mortiers-bible 30-satan-bound-for-1000-years-revelation-cap-20-vv-1-2-burney 31-satan-bound-for-1000-years-revelation-cap-20-v-3-loutherbourg 32-satan-bound-for-1000-years-revelation-cap-20-vv-1-3-burney 33-satan-bound-for-1000-years-revelation-cap-20-v-2-burney 34-satan-bound-for-1000-years-revelation-cap-20-v-3-burney 35-the-loosing-of-satan-revelation-cap-20-v-7-burney 36-a-new-heaven-and-new-earth-revelation-cap-21-de-vos 37-a-new-heaven-and-new-earth-revelation-21-scheits 38-a-new-heaven-and-new-earth-revelation-cap-21-mortiers-bible 39-a-new-heaven-and-new-earth-revelation-cap-21-v-2-merian 40-general-resurrection-revelation-20-v-11-14-hooghe 41-a-new-heaven-and-new-earth-revelation-21-v-2-borcht 42-a-new-heaven-and-new-earth-revelation-21-v-29-borcht 43-the-tree-of-life-revelation-cap-22-v-2-mortiers-bible