Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 315
ulptors, in defiance of thefact that no similar work can be pointedto on any part of the European continent.No evidence, indeed, of any kind has beendiscovered to suggest that the work isforeign, unless, indeed, the fact that acertain number of figures high up on theWest Front bear Arabic numerals… … FIG. 526.—TOMB OF ARCHBISHOPCRAY, YORK (Purbeck figure.) sional use in this country as earlyas the middle of the thirteenthcentury, which is not too late forthese figures, and other explana-tions of their presence might begiven. The absence of anythingelsewhere to which these statuescan fairly be…
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