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 129
Il6 I. EMBROIDERY. are compartments displaying Hell, where Jesus isseeking the prophets and saints of the old dispensa-tion to bring them into the Kingdom of the Elect;all of which is interpreted with a really remarkablepurity and vigour of drawing and needlework. But the needle has even surpassed… … Fig. 50.—Panel, displaying a sacramental procession, of Italiansixteenth-century embroidery. of these shows a symbolical procession of the HolySacrament, in which both Old and New Testamentsare typified (fig. 50). At the head of the processionis King David, dancing and singing psalms as he playshis…
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