The decorative arts ecclesiastical and civil of the Middle Ages (1851)
Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873 · London, William Pickering · leaf 119
ed befide the tomb early in the latter year. The total coft of the work,including the expenfes of its carriage to London and putting it up, wasthirteen Pounds : equal to at leaft 180 of modern currency. The fact of folarge a fum having been paid, leads us to queftion whether the fmall worknow… … wife elaborately decorated, there would be as much, or more, reafon forprotecting it as for fcreening the effigy which is fo high above the floorof the aille or ambulatory. However, as the ancient accounts of the coftof thefe works do not give its dimenfions, our fufpicion muft pafs asfounded on…
Decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Church decoration and ornament
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