The Pool of Bethesda

Simon François Ravenet, Jean-Marie Delâtre after William Hogarth

The Pool of Bethesda

London, J. & J. Boydell ca 1806

Copper engraving

485 x 565mm

£150

From the collection of George Morant, (1770 – 1846) of 95 Wimpole St, London. A very fine set on mostly uncut sheets kept loose in a folio. Carefully printed and in very good condition.

Morant was a collector and Founder of a business of paper hangers, carvers, gilders and picture frame makers.

The company had offices at 88 Old Bond St,  from 1814, and was appointed as ‘house decorator, carver, gilder & picture-frame-maker to His Majesty’. From 1832 he was appointed again by Her majesty Queen Victoria

A large and elaborate of engraving executed by Hogarth’s French collaborators under his direction , illustrating a view from the New Testament.  Christ is healing the sick at the Pool of Bethesda, with a large group of onlookers and a Roman aquaduct in the background.This huge painting was executed by Hogarth to hang on the staircase of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Smithfield where for the moment it still remains.