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A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)

Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 208

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BBEY. WEEPERS ON TOMB OFEDMUND CROUCHBACK. r. 1300 The altar-tomb upon which these figures appear as weepers commemorates Edmund Crouchback,Earl of Lancaster, brother of Edward I, who died in 1296. The tomb is the right-hand one of PI. CLVIII,which shows some of the royal tombs. These little… … ^:^ J Plate No. CXLVl. DORCHESTER ABBEY, OXON. JESSE WINDOW, r. 1340. D A passage in Isaiah (xi. i) gave rise in medieeval art to a favourite subject for groups of sculpture. A trunkwas made to rise from a recumbent figure of Jesse and this grew into a genealogical tree, all the branchescontaining…

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