Word: seddon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Charles Eliot Norton. The inscription on its back states that this picture was presented to Benjamin Dyke in 1803, at which time it had been preserved in the family of its donor, Miss Frances Lambert, for more than three centuries. In recent years, it has been known as the Seddon portrait. It was bought, after Mr. Seddon's death, by Mr. Fairfax Murray, who later sold it to Mr. James Loeb. Mr. Loeb presented it to Professor Norton. Professor Norton bequeathed it to the Library, with the request that it be inscribed as a memorial of two lovers of Chaucer...
Permit me to call the attention of your readers to the fact that there is now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum the so-called Fairfax Murray (or Seddon) portrait of Chaucer, which, next to the illumination by this disciple Occleve in a manuscript of the early fifteenth century, is probably the best likeness of the poet in existence. Alongside it in the Museum has been placed a book describing all extant portraits of Chaucer, with a photographic reproduction of each...