Bowyer Bible Prints: the Book of Numbers

Phillip Medhurst · 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z

BOWYER BIBLE PRINTS: THE BOOK OF NUMBERS This image-collection contains prints illustrating the Book of Numbers 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-the-destruction-of-korah-numbers-cap-16-vv-31-35-perelle 02-the-sacrifice-of-the-red-heifer-numbers-cap-19-v-2-heuman 03-purification-by-the-red-heifer-numbers-cap-19-vv-1-10-caspar-luyken 04-purification-by-the-red-heifer-numbers-cap-19-vv-2-10-caspar-luyken 05-moses-brings-water-out-of-the-rock-numbers-cap-20-borcht 06-moses-brings-water-out-of-the-rock-numbers-cap-20-luyken-and-son 07-the-fiery-serpents-are-sent-by-moses-numbers-21-vv-6-9-perelle 08-the-israelites-are-bitten-by-fiery-serpents-numbers-cap-20-vv-26-28-cap-21-vv-30-32-huyberts 09-the-israelites-are-bitten-by-fiery-serepents-numbers-cap-21-vv-6-9-caspar-luyken 10-the-israelites-are-bitten-by-fiery-serpents-numbers-cap-21-vv-6-9-after-rubens 11-the-israelites-are-bitten-by-fiery-serpents-numbers-cap-21-vv-6-9-caspar-luyken 12-the-israelites-are-bitten-by-fiery-serpents-numbers-cap-21-vv-6-9-dutch-bible 13-the-israelites-are-bitten-by-fiery-serpents-numbers-cap-21-vv-6-9-hayman 14-the-israelites-are-bitten-by-fiery-serpents-numbers-cap-21-vv-6-9-heuman 15-the-israelites-are-bitten-by-fiery-serpents-numbers-cap-21-vv-6-9-le-brun 16-the-israelites-are-bitten-by-fiery-serpents-numbers-cap-21-vv-6-9-schenck 17-the-israelites-bitten-by-fiery-serpents-numbers-cap-21-vv-6-9-hoet 18-moses-numbers-cap-21-v-8-westall 19-balaam-smites-his-ass-numbers-cap-22-vv-22-28-caspar-luyken 20-balaam-smites-his-ass-numbers-cap-22-vv-22-28-goltzius 21-balaam-smites-his-ass-numbers-cap-22-vv-22-32-dutch-bible 22-balaam-smites-his-ass-numbers-cap-22-vv-26-32-northcote 23-balaam-smites-his-ass-numbers-cap-22-vv-28-30-thelot 24-balaam-smites-his-ass-numbers-cap-23-vv-22-31-mortier 25-balaam-smites-his-ass-numbers-cap-23-vv-23-30-caspar-luyken 26-balaks-sacrifices-numbers-cap-23-v-24-de-vos 27-balaks-sacrifices-numbers-cap-23-v-24-hayman-after-hoet 28-balaks-sacrifices-numbers-cap-23-v-24-mortier 29-balaams-prophecy-numbers-cap-24-hoet 30-the-idolatry-with-baal-peor-numbers-cap-25-vv-1-8-de-hooghe 31-the-idolatry-with-baal-peor-numbers-cap-25-vv-1-8-pool 32-whoredom-with-the-daughters-of-moab-numbers-cap-25-vv-1-3-de-vos 33-the-land-divided-numbers-cap-26-vv-51-62-pintz 34-balaam-slain-numbers-cap-31-vv-6-9-hoet 35-taking-the-spoils-numbers-cap-31-v-54-hoet 36-the-allotment-to-the-levites-numbers-35-vv-4-5-pinz 37-the-allotment-to-the-levites-numbers-cap-35-vv-4-5-tyroff