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    Beware of tugging a loose thread

    Jun 09, 2021 2 minutes

    LAST month Jesus College, Cambridge, submitted an application to remove the funerary monument of Tobias Rustat (d. 1693), a fine portrait roundel attributed to Grin-ling Gibbons (), from its chapel. Rustat gave the college one of its largest ever benefactions in 1671 and his monument is

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