Bath, Art and Architecture

Saturday, 7 December 2024

Portrait of Roubiliac by Soldi.

Many thanks to lime plasterer extraordinaire Ben Hubert for alerting me to this. A Recently Discovered Portrait Portrait of the Sculptor...

Thursday, 5 December 2024

The Busts of Oliver Cromwell by Francis Harwood (redux).

This post prompted by a recent conversation with Johnny Tomasso. When I started this blog I had no idea of where it would lead and have disc...

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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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