The Reverend John Ryland, A.M. Engraved for the Contemplations on the Beauties of Creation.
Carington Bowles, excudit. Publish'd as the Act directs, 14. Mar. 1778.
Rare mezzotint. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with large margins. Bit time stained.
Portrait of the Baptist Minister John Ryland. He learnt Hebrew when only five years old and Greek when he was only nine, and by fifteen was teaching in his father's school. He was minister of the Broadmead Chapel at Bristol and was one of the twelve ministers who founded the Baptist Missionary Society.
[Ref: 53158] £220.00
Rare mezzotint. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with large margins. Bit time stained.
Portrait of the Baptist Minister John Ryland. He learnt Hebrew when only five years old and Greek when he was only nine, and by fifteen was teaching in his father's school. He was minister of the Broadmead Chapel at Bristol and was one of the twelve ministers who founded the Baptist Missionary Society.
[Ref: 53158] £220.00