Lydgate presenting his book to the Earl of Salisbury mb-code 1150862 Brown was awarded the Copley

Brown was awarded the Copley Medal in 1920

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

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

second design

Lydgate presenting his book to the Earl of Salisbury mb-code 1150862 Brown was awarded the CopleyLydgate 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