The archaeological album; or, Museum of national antiquities (1845)
Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877, Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 103
G7 HISTORY OF ART IN THE MIDDLE AGES. lost in the ground, covered with plants and trees. Such personifications are less common in England after the Conquest ; but perhaps few of them can bear comparison in point of singularity with that represented in our next cut, taken from an illuminated… … of this picture is a good example of the superior skill in drawing landscapes which appeared in the fifteenth century. The Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuscripts are in general much less attractive by their beauty than those of subsequent periods. The only part in which there is any freedom of drawing…
Great Britain -- Antiquities
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