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Portrait of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger, showing More in dark robes and a black hat, wearing a gold chain of office, seated against a green and yellow draped background.

Woodcut map of the island of Utopia from Thomas More's Utopia, showing a circular island with towns, ships in the water, and Raphael Hythlodaeus speaking to figures in the lower left.

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Portrait of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger, showing More in dark robes and a black hat, wearing a gold chain of office, seated against a green and yellow draped background.

Thomas More

English humanist and statesman