Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from William of Wykeham and His Colleges
An artist was already engaged at Oxford to make a drawing of the founder for the purpose of being engraved; when it appeared, after the careful con sideration of the several portraits by competent au thorities, that there was no surer credential for the authenticity of the likeness than a tradition of little more than two hundred years. It has been, therefore, thought advisable to emit a costly engraving, and substitute views of real scenes, which will be familiar to all Wykehamists. The most correct likeness of the founder will probably be found in one of the cotemporaneous corbels at New or Winchester Col lege. The effigy on his seal will be seen at page 2.
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