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Walter Scott Image Collection
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0030117
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Shelfmark:
Corson P.7113
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Corson P.7113
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Title:
Bentley: From a Picture by Hudson in Trinity College, Cambridge
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Bentley: From a Picture by Hudson in Trinity College, Cambridge
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Steel engraved portrait of Richard Bentley by J. Posselwhite after a painting by Hudson
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Steel engraved portrait of Richard Bentley by J. Posselwhite after a painting by Hudson
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Hudson, Thomas
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Hudson, Thomas
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Artist
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Posselwhite, James
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Posselwhite, James
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Date:
1853
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1853
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Description:
Engraved portrait of the critic and classical scholar Richard Bentley (1662-1742). In Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley (1814), the protagonist Edward Waverley is portrayed as a conceited, unreceptive scholar: '"I can read and understand a Latin author," said young Edward, with the self-confidence and rash reasoning of fifteen, "and Scaliger or Bentley could not do much more."' (ch. 3) Richard Bentley is perhaps England's greatest classical scholar. In his Memoir of Jonathan Swift (1814), Scott discusses Bentley's role in the controversy sparked by Sir William Temple's Ancient and Modern Learning which Swift satirized in The Battle of the Books (1704).
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Engraved portrait of the critic and classical scholar Richard Bentley (1662-1742). In Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley (1814), the protagonist Edward Waverley is portrayed as a conceited, unreceptive scholar: '"I can read and understand a Latin author," said young Edward, with the self-confidence and rash reasoning of fifteen, "and Scaliger or Bentley could not do much more."' (ch. 3) Richard Bentley is perhaps England's greatest classical scholar. In his Memoir of Jonathan Swift (1814), Scott discusses Bentley's role in the controversy sparked by Sir William Temple's Ancient and Modern Learning which Swift satirized in The Battle of the Books (1704).
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Engraving
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Engraving
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Measurement:
18.3 x 26.9cm (7 3/16 x 10 9/16")
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18.3 x 26.9cm (7 3/16 x 10 9/16")
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Ink
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Paper
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Technique:
Steel Engraving
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Steel Engraving
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Location:
TBC/Main Library/Special Collections
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TBC/Main Library/Special Collections
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Repository:
Corson Collection
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Corson Collection
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Source:
The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets, vol. II. London: Wm. S. Orr & Co., 1853
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The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets, vol. II. London: Wm. S. Orr & Co., 1853
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Subject Person:
Bentley, Richard
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Bentley, Richard
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Subject Person:
Scott, Walter, Sir
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Scott, Walter, Sir
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Books and reading
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Portraits
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Related Work Title:
Waverley; or 'Tis Sixty Years Since
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Waverley; or 'Tis Sixty Years Since
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Related Work Creator:
Scott, Walter, Sir
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Scott, Walter, Sir
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Repro Capture Date:
24/04/2012 10:32:00
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Repro Rights Statement:
© The University of Edinburgh
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© The University of Edinburgh
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