Roger_Bacons_Study_in_Oxford.jpg
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*Note: The nickname of the building is " Friar Bacon's study ". The filename of this image was not well chosen, my mistake.
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"This is an external view of the study of a Franciscan friar, Roger Bacon, an Oxford scholar famous for his unorthodox scientific and mathematical work. By the late 18th century this study, on Folly Bridge, had become a place of pilgrimage for scientists. Samuel Pepys visited it in 1669, remarking: "So to Friar Bacon's study: I up and saw it, and gave the man 1s[hilling] ... Oxford mighty fine place". The building was pulled down in the 18th century to allow for road widening."
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| Source | http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/kinggeorge/f/003ktop00000034u034b0000.html |
| Author | Unknown author |
- From the British Library on-line gallery.
- Medium: Watercolour
- Shelfmark: Ktop XXXIV
- Item number: 34-b
- Genre: Topographical Drawing
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