A description of, and critical remarks on the picture of Christ healing the sick in the Temple : painted by Benjamin West ... and presented by him to the Pennsylvania Hospital / by John Robinson.

  • Robinson, John, -approximately 1829.
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1818
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A description of, and critical remarks on the picture of Christ healing the sick in the Temple : painted by Benjamin West ... and presented by him to the Pennsylvania Hospital / by John Robinson. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : Published by S. W. Conrad, no. 87, Market Street, for the Pennsylvania Hospital ; William Brown, printer, 1818.

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24 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plate : illustrations (engraving) ; 23 cm

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Engraved frontispiece: Key to West's picture of Christ healing the sick ... from a sketch by T. Sully, Esqr. Kneass, Young & Co. sc
One of two indentified printings published by Solomon W. Conrad in 1818. In this printing the title page has "A description" printed in open face Roman type, and "in the temple" printed on two lines. The sixth line of the introduction on p. [3] ends "to arrive"; the description of the lunatic boy appears on p. 13-14, and that of the two persons carrying the sick man on p. 14-15; and the second paragraph of the critical remarks on p. 16 begins "The subject being that of Christ healing the lame and the blind ..."
"Just published, by Solomon W. Conrad ... A popular treatise on the remedies to be employed in cases of poisoning and apparent death ..."--p. [4] of wrapper
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴
Film 633 reel 79 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 79, no. 1614).

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Sabin 72116
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1614
Shaw & Shoemaker 45561

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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