Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London : T.N. Foulis · leaf 364
rd in height by thirty inches in breadth. There also are preserved in this collection ashield (late sixteenth century) adorned by MexicanIndians with a most elaborate mosaic of feather-work, and a number of Spanish adargas of thesame period, for playing the juego de cartas orgame of canes. The… … JOUSTING HARNKSS OF PHILIP THP: HANDSOME (Royal Aniioury, Madrid) ARMS sinister event befell on December ist, 1808,when the Spanish mob, exasperated by theFrench, broke in and seized three hundred swords,not one of which was afterwards recovered.Mention of these disasters leads me to recall…
Decorative arts
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