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Robert
Dighton 1751-1814 NPG D10882 'A View from Trinity College Cambridge', William Lort Mansel (1753-1820), published 1810 Mansel became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1798 and was appointed Bishop of Bristol in 1808. He was a great wit and mimic of academic society; his epigrams and verses achieving great renown. This is one of the more imposing examples of Robert Dighton's numerous depictions of Cambridge and Oxford academics. |
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