The Arts In Berwick -- Visual Arts -- Painting
A Fragment of Fresco

A fascinating fragment of Tudor Berwick is the fresco discovered in the Old Bridge Tavern in 1900. Restored and transferred to the Museum when the Tavern was demolished, it has an inscription reading "Wisdom and science which are pure by kind, Should not be writ in books but in mind".

Research has revealed that almost the same verse appears in a notebook written by Thomas Brampton, a Norfolk landowner, in 1570-80. How and why this got onto a fireplace in Berwick remains a mystery.


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