At the 400th anniversary of Sir Thomas Browne’s birth, I took these pictures which included my Niece looking at a memorial to a very ancient aunt in St. Thomas Mancroft,
and a long shot of my Grandfather’s painting “Wist ye not”. (I will post a better image of it up on www.artituk.com in due course.)
Here also is a picture of Alfred Bertram Pegram’s 1905 statue to Sir Thomas Browne on the occasion of his 300th birthday. See more on my English Blog at
My attempt is a little standing version 7 inches high for the 400th birthday see:
http://artituk.com/Art_Sculpture_2002/artwork.php?Artist=15&Artwork=526
The main virtue of having gone to grad school is having already read hunks of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and Religio Medici and the wondrous Hydrotaphia, or Urn Burial! However, I do not remember any of them as well as I ought. I’d like to read his “quincunx” book, too, I think–or perhaps would like to have read it already!
How charming to have a petite Sir Thomas on one’s desk… I especially like his little bronze (or silver) shoes. They “ground” him in another world, another age.
I’d like to walk about and get a good look at the picture and memorial, too. Ah, well.