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Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) author, biographer, and historian
Thomas Woolner (1825 - 1892)
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) writer and politician (identity doubtful)
18th century unknown
Izaak Walton (1593-1683) author of ‘The Compleat Angler’
James Inskipp (1790 - 1868)
Collophon Page
Chris Orr (1943 - )
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Poet & Dramatist
Augustus John (1878 - 1961)
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) poet
Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845)
Thomas Goff Lupton (1791 - 1873)
Public Petition Writer
Amadeo Preziosi (1816 - 1882)
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st Baronet (1829-1894) judge and writer
George Frederick, (after) Watts
The Great Bear
Simon Patterson (1967 - )
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) poet
Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845)
Byron and Marianna
William Drummond
George James Zobel (1810 - 1881)
Thomas Rawlins (c.1620-1670) engraver, medallist and playwright [?]
Adriaen Hanneman (c.1601 - 1671)
Angus Davidson (1898-1980) writer and publisher
Sir Cedric Morris (1889 - 1981)
Robert Burns (1759-96) poet [identity doubtful]
George Watson (1767 - 1837)
Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 2nd Baronet (1806-1863)
John Watkins (1823 - 1874)
D J Pound
Sir Walter Ralegh and his Son
British 17th century (after) unknown
Elizabeth MacFadgen (1923 - )
Allegorical Tomb of Joseph Addison (1642-1719) essayist and poet
Donato Creti (1671 - 1749)
Carlo Besoli (1707 - 1754)
Nunzio Ferraiuoli (1660 - 1735)
Edmund Burke (1729-97) politician and author
Sir Joshua, (after) Reynolds
William A Menzies
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400) Poet & Comptroller of Customs
British 17th century unknown
Arthur William Symons (1865-1945) literary scholar, poet and author
Rudolf Helmut Sauter (1895 - 1977)
Dante’s “Inferno”: 3 Study Portraits of Dante
Syed Saleem Arif Quadri (1949 - )
Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815-1906) author
British 19th century unknown
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Novelist and Poet
Sir Francis (studio) Chantrey (1781 - 1841)
Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) literary critic and biographer
Stephen Tomlin (1901 - 1937)
Maria Callcott, Lady Callcott, née Dundas (1785-1842) traveller and author
Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779 - 1844)
Plate 8
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Plate 1 [title page]
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Novelist and Poet
Colvin Smith (1796 - 1875)
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) diplomat and writer
British 17th century unknown
Plate 3
Chris Orr (1943 - )
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) Poet
British 19th century unknown
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618) courtier, explorer, and author
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright (1840-1903) politician and historian
(Alexander von) Sándor Liezen-Mayer (1839 - 1898)
Samuel Vaughan (1720-1802) trader, garden designer and philosopher
Robert Edge Pine (1742 - 1788)
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) politician and historian [identity uncertain]
Cornelius Johnson (1593 - 1661)
Brian Robert Morris, Lord Morris of Castle Morris (1930-2001) literary scholar, arts administrator and politician
Paul Brason (1952 - )
Plate 2
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Arthur Young (1741-1820) agricultural reformer and writer
George, the younger Dance (1741 - 1825)
William Daniell (1769 - 1837)
A Literary Party at Sir Joshua Reynolds’s
James E Doyle
William, III Walker (1791 - 1867)
The Dragoman of Mr Moore, English Consul at Beyrout
Sir David Wilkie (1785 - 1841)
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) poet
Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845)
Thomas Goff Lupton (1791 - 1873)
Bard Attitude
Bedwyr Williams (1974 - )
Mary Wollstonecraft
Stewy
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere
Gillian Wearing (1963 - )
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