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Shakespeare Sonnet 11
Sir Sidney Nolan (1917 - 1992)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Patrick Procktor (1936 - 2003)
Plate 6
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Plate 5
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) poet and philosopher
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959)
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Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618) courtier, explorer, and author
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron (1788-1824) poet
Edward Hodges Baily (1788 - 1867)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
Icon of Federico Garcia Lorca
Mick Rooney (1944 - )
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George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron (1788-1824) poet
British 19th century unknown
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Playwright and Poet
John (after) Taylor ( - 1651)
Louis François Roubiliac (c.1705 - 1762)
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) poet, politician and diplomat
John, I Faber (c.1660 - 1721)
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723)
Plate 7
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618) courtier, explorer, and author
British 16th century unknown
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) writer and poet
Sir William Nicholson (1872 - 1949)
Summer: the Force that through the Green Fuse drives the Flower
Ceri Richards (1903 - 1971)
Plate 4
Chris Orr (1943 - )
New Coloured Fire from the Vast Strange Country
Joe Tilson (1928 - )
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) writer and politician (identity doubtful)
18th century unknown
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 Goff Lupton (1791 - 1873)
Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845)
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) poet
Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845)
Byron and Marianna
George James Zobel (1810 - 1881)
William Drummond
Robert Burns (1759-96) poet [identity doubtful]
George Watson (1767 - 1837)
Sir Walter Ralegh and his Son
British 17th century (after) unknown
Elizabeth MacFadgen (1923 - )
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 - )
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Novelist and Poet
Sir Francis (studio) Chantrey (1781 - 1841)
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)
Brian Robert Morris, Lord Morris of Castle Morris (1930-2001) literary scholar, arts administrator and politician
Paul Brason (1952 - )
Plate 2
Chris Orr (1943 - )
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) poet
Thomas Goff Lupton (1791 - 1873)
Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845)
Bard Attitude
Bedwyr Williams (1974 - )
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