Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 208
sheddesigns for ornamental plate and furniture, and some of his pieces of this classwere preserved in the seventeenth century, when they gave employment tothe graver of Hollar. The latter was a less fortunate adventurer: he cameto England to live in poverty, and to be dependent upon the generosity… … DAGGER AND SWORD. URING the latter half of the fifteenthcentury and the first half of the sixteenth,the elegance which entered into everybranch of art was especially conspicu-ous in the arms and armour of princes.The accompanying plate represents theornamental parts of a superb dagger andof a…
Middle Ages · Costume · Decoration and ornament, Medieval
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