Bath, Art and Architecture

Thursday, 16 August 2018

The Busts of Gratiana Davenport and other Sculpture by Joseph Plura of Bath.

Update 7 March 2024. The marble bust of Gratiana Davenport is no longer at Lacock Abbey and is currently, March 2024 being offered for s...

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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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