There is a portrait of William Tyndale that hangs in the dining-hall of Hertford College, Oxford.
His right hand in the painting is pointing to what appears to be a Bible, under which there is a Latin couplet, of which the translation runs thus:
To scatter Roman darkness by this light
The loss of land and life I’ll reckon slight.
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