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- ↑ Katherine Eustace, Roger Wagner Paintings, Anthony Mould (1995)
- ↑ Richard Harries, The Image of Christ in Modern Art, Ashgate (2013) p147
- ↑ Peter Levi, In a Strange Land, Anthony Mould (1988)
- ↑ Anne Wroe, Six Facets of Light, Jonathan Cape (2016), p179
- ↑ Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, vol. 1 (1779)
- ↑ Rowan Williams, The Guardian, Books 31 January 2004
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