Bath, Art and Architecture

Monday, 10 August 2026

Coade - The Statues of Time (Chronos) and a Druid.

The Yale version of the Coade Catalogue of 1784. The trade card title plate on the cover is engraved by P. Wray, after Charles Reuben Ryle...

Thursday, 6 August 2026

Pitt the Elder (1708 - 1778) - bust in Artificial stone at Harvard University.

The original by Joseph Wilton, (1722 - 1803). Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, gift; to Harvard University, 1769. The Harvard Corporatio...

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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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