The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 289
Asia, towhich it had been imported from ancient Egypt, at a period long before itwas first thought of in Europe. These hypotheses being admitted, thewhole question reduces itself into an inquiry as to the way in which the art 232 ENGRA VING. made its entrance into Western Europe in the first half… … Fig. 209.— The Virgin and Infant Jesus. Fac-simile of a Wood-Engraving of the Fifteenth Century, (Bibl. Nat., Paris.) St. Christopher, without either mark or name of its author, bearing a Latininscription and the date of 1423. This specimen is so roughly engraved, andin drawing is so faulty, that…
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