Abbey gatehouse, Cerne Abbas, Dorset mb-code GNIT188 looking away from a book

looking away from a book held upon his knee in a reading position

The subject is taken from Keats' poem of the same title

Horsemen at the time of Charles I

'John Greenleaf Whittier

Allegory of Rome

Abbey gatehouse, Cerne Abbas, Dorset mb-code GNIT188 looking away from a bookAbbey gatehouse, Cerne Abbas, Dorset, 1924 1926. The village of Cerne Abbas grew up around a Benedictine Abbey established in 987. The abbey was closed in 1539 during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries, and today only the gatehouse and part of the abbot's porch remain. A print from Hutchinson's Britain Beautiful, edited by Walter Hutchinson, volume II, 1924 1926.