Early illustrated books : a history of the decoration and illustration of books in the 15th and 16th centuries (1917)
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944 · London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner · leaf 203
the cen-tral picture with four vignettes illustrating Virgils Sic vos non vobis quatrain, on the sheep, thebees, the birds, and the oxen, whose life enrichesothers but not themselves. In the picture of theAdoration by the Magi, here given, Tory obtainsan unusually rich effect by the figure of the… … From Torys ^cra^-, 1525. (Reduced. N 194 Early Illustrated Books and slight angularity in the figures (effects whichTory, the most affected of artists, no doubt deli-berately sought for) cause them just to fall shortof beauty. Compared, however, with the contem-porary editions of other printers,…
Illustrated books · Incunabula
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