Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers (1888)
Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835, Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934 · London, H. Grevel · leaf 118
whole effect isstill characterizedby sincerity andfrankness in in-spiration andexecution. Heraldic and Fig. 45.religious subjectsalmost equally engaged the needle of the embroiderer,a preference being shown for saints with militantattributes. And it seems as though religious art in itsexpressions… … Italian embroidery, fifteenth century(in the Hcchon collection). 106 I. EMBROIDERY. bishop ; St. George represented as a knight on horse-back killing a wild beast (ung chevalier a cheval qui occitun beste), and above all, St. Michael piercing with hislance the devil beneath his feet—the famous…
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