Examples of English mediaeval foliage and coloured decoration, taken from buildings of the twelfth to the fifteenth century: with descriptive letterpress (1874)

Colling, James Kellaway · London, The author [etc.] · leaf 61

An illustration from Examples of English mediaeval foliage and coloured decoration, taken from buildings of the twelfth to the fifteenth century: with descriptive letterpress, 1874, leaf 61 — iage, as in the wood-cut, Fig. 45, andthe upper boss, Plate 52, also in the bosses from WinchesterCathedral, Plate 55. The skill of the carvers of foliage wasat its greatest height at this time, but they had departed fromthe beautiful simplicity of the earlier and more natural forms, torevel in… … Fig. 47.

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