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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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English: "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."[1]
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Source http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/kinggeorge/f/003ktop00000034u034b0000.html
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
  • From the British Library on-line gallery.
  • Medium: Watercolour
  • Shelfmark: Ktop XXXIV
  • Item number: 34-b
  • Genre: Topographical Drawing

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