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Bust SM L61 ©Sir John Soane's Museum, photo: John Bridges
Bust of William Camden (1551-1623)
Plaster
Museum number: L61
On display: Library-Dining Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
William Camden was a celebrated antiquary and historian who was Headmaster of Westminster School from 1593 and founded a Chair of History at Oxford. He travelled round England gathering material for his many publications including Britannia (1586), a history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and a Greek Grammar that was said to be famous throughout Europe.
This bust is based on that on his tomb in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.
This bust is based on that on his tomb in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.
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