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The grotesque in church art

Wildridge, Thomas Tindall · 1899 · London, W. Andrews & co. · 6 pictures

Thomas Tindall Wildridge's 1899 antiquarian survey of grotesque carving in English churches, published in London by W. Andrews & Co. for readers of church history and ecclesiology. Line drawings copy misericords, corbels and bench-ends: a fox in friar's habit preaching to geese, beasts fighting, the Adoration of the Magi under gothic canopies, each rendered in hatched pen strokes with flat backgrounds.

Grotesque · Christian art and symbolism · Church decoration and ornament

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