Lydgate presenting his book to the Earl of Salisbury mb-code 1150862 View of Windsor Castle from

View of Windsor Castle from Egham Hill

A photograph taken about the time he was illustrating Our Mutual Friend

street scene in Tokyo

Cross (1823-1914) came to prominence in the General Election of 1868

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Lydgate presenting his book to the Earl of Salisbury mb-code 1150862 View of Windsor Castle fromLydgate presenting his book to the Earl of Salisbury, 1426, (1843). John Lydgate, poet of Bury St Edmunds, presents his book to Thomas de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury. Lydgate's book, Ye Pilgrime, (Pilgrimage of the World, by the commandement of the Earle of Salisburie, 1426), now lost, was commissioned by the earl who was killed at the siege of Orleans in 1428. The pilgrim here is only an emblematic personage, the monk standing beside him and holding