William Strahan by Unknown Artist, 1765 Sculpture something a medieval tradition called

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William Strahan by Unknown Artist, 1765 Sculpture something a medieval tradition calledABOUT THIS PRINT William Strahan is not a familiar figure to us today. But during his life he was a colossus. He might be thought of today as being something of a proto Rupert Murdoch. Having arrived in London from his native Edinburgh with nothing in the mid 1730s, he set up an increasingly successful printing business. By the 1770s this had expanded substantially to cover a series of streets north of Fleet Street. He printed the work of Samuel