The Marble Bust of Thomas Herbert (1656 - 1733)
8th Earl of Pembroke.
Attorney General
in the Long Room, Trinity College Library, Dublin.
Peter Scheemakers.
Signed P.S. Ft.
Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke.
Photographed by the Author.
4 October 2016.
President of the Royal Society 1689 - 90.
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1707 - 8.
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Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.
Mezzotint - John Smith.
After Willem Wissing.
346 x 252 mm.
1708.
British Museum.
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The Marble Busts in the Long Room of the Library at Trinity College, Dublin.
For the Trinity website see - http://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitions/choicebooks/newlibrary.php
Literature -
Anne Crookshank & David Webb. Paintings and sculptures in Trinity College Dublin. Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press. 1990. [Includes pictures of all busts and brief biographies of the subjects]
Image courtesy of the Trinity College Art Collections
The Long Room.
Trinity College Library.
Thomas Malton.
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Photograph by the Author 4 October 2016.
Hello. I’m grateful for your blog post and pictures. I work in a hospital and an image of this bust(with the name cut off), and books in background appeared. This was a presentation regarding law, specifically ADA Act and disability accommodations. I suspected that it was not a bust of some random lawyer dude. An image search turned up other “law” type usages. I then found your blog and the bust of Milton. The lighting and background looked similar and I wondered if Trinity Library also had this bust and I figured you would have this in one of your posts and you did! I looked him up and he was an Earl and statesman. Not sure if he was a barrister or had anything to do with laws. Dunno how his bust came to be used as a stock photo for “law”. Anyway, thanks!
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