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, for the Pennsylvania Hospital ; William Brown, printer, 1818.

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24 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plate : illustrations (engraving) ; 22 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 identified printings published by Solomon W. Conrad in 1818. In this printing the title page has "A description" printed in solid Roman type, and "in the temple" printed on a single line. The sixth line of the introduction on p. [3] ends "to arrive at"; the description of the lunatic boy appears on p. 14, and that of the two persons carrying the sick man on p. 15; and the second paragraph of the critical remarks on p. 16 begins "The grand conceptions and design of the artist are here perspicuously given ..."
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NLM copy: the plate is cropped at the head, with loss of the text.
NLM copy bound with: Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). Medical Library. A catalogue of the medical library, belonging to the Pennsylvania Hospital. Philadelphia, 1806. -- the same library's A catalogue of the medical library, belonging to the Pennsylvania Hospital. Part II. Philadelphia, 1818. -- Magdalen Society of Philadelphia. To the members of the Magdalen Society. [Philadelphia, 1818?].

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Sabin 72116
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1614
Shaw & Shoemaker 45562

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm. Film number 59-72 no.4

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