Bath, Art and Architecture

Sunday, 24 May 2015

Terracotta Bust of John Ray by Roubiliac - British Museum

The Terracotta bust of John Ray at the British Museum. Photographed 8 April 2015. For More on the John Ray bust see entry on th...

Thursday, 21 May 2015

12 busts by Roubiliac in the British Museum.

The Twelve Busts by Roubiliac. Bought by Dr Matthew Maty at the Four Day posthumous auction sale 12 - 15 May 1762 of the contents of th...

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David Bridgwater: "The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred. Lucian of Samosata

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