Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 81
e of one of the watchmen. The last, and one of themost deplorable of the modern disasters of the Cathedral of Chartres, was thegreat fire which was caused by accident, on the 4th of June, 1836, when someworkmen were employed in the tower. This calamity destroyed many impor-tant portions of the… … extremely valuable as specimens of the costume, &c. of the period. It is fromamong these statues that we have taken the three figures of ecclesiastics repre-sented on our plate; and the woodcuts below represent a portion of the Alband of the Episcopal Shoes. The first of these figures…
Middle Ages · Costume · Decoration and ornament, Medieval
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