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Photograph showing a side view of Newton in the Chapel with the bust of Daniel Lock on the west wall behind and the plaque to James Lambert on the north wall of the Chapel. Printed label at left, "Trinity College Cambridge. Newton's Statue, by Roubiliac. 11" No photographer indicated.

Claims that the statue 'when first executed by Roubiliac and before it left his Studio, had the lips closed'; this was first noted in the piece on Byron's Childe Harold in the Eclectic Review, whose editor Josiah Conder had married Roubiliac's niece [actually, his granddaughter]. 'It is likely that the story was traditional in the family, tho never heard of in this place'.

Signed 'F. T. Cambridge'.