Visitors brush up a statue of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, in Oxford, England. – Vintage Photograph

Visitors to Oxford, England, brush up a statue of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, in the Schools Quad outside the main entrance to the Old Bodleian Library. Herbert, a patron of Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones, was Chancellor of the University from 1517 until his death in 1530 and a benefactor of the library.Visitors to Oxford, England, brush up a statue of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, in the Schools Quad outside the main entrance to the Old Bodleian Library. Herbert, a patron of Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones, was Chancellor of the University from 1517 until his death in 1530 and a benefactor of the library.

Dimensions: 20.1 x 25.1 cm

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