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History of Photography


The Pencil of Nature (1844-46)

by William Henry Fox Talbot

Part V (cont.): PLATE XXI. THE MARTYR'S MONUMENT


OXFORD has at length, after the lapse of three centuries, raised a worthy monument to her martyred bishops, who died for the Protestant cause in Queen Mary's reign.

And we have endeavoured in this plate to represent it worthily. How far we have succeeded must be left to the judgment of the gentle Reader.

The statue seen in the picture is that of Bishop Latimer.


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