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On a Picture of Judas, Painted to Resemble Bishop Kennet
To say the picture does to him belong, Kennet does Judas and the painter wrong. False is the image, the resemblance faint; Judas compar’d to Kennet was a saint.[See Nichols’ Literary Anecdotes. Bishop Kennet (1660-1728), at that time Dean of Peter-bor¬ough, offended the Tory and Church party by the support he accorded to the Whigs, and one London clergyman actually had an altar-piece placed in his church in which Judas was so repre¬sented as greatly to resemble the unfortunate prelate. Besides the above, Bishop Atterbury is said to have written a Latin epi¬gram on the same subject, the English version of which runs: –
“Think not that here thou art represented; Thou ’rt not like Judas, for he repented.”]
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