A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 104
would describe the first of theseclasses as appropriated and converted brasses ; the second class hesubdivides into wasters from the workshop, and spoils from thedestruction of religious houses and chantries. To illustrate theanachronisms caused by the appropriation of brasses, the exampleat… … m ** / a. Fig. 70,—Monumental brass : head of a bishop, Flemish, fourteenth century. The second class is much the most numerous, and to it the varioussmall examples in the Museum collection belong. Palimpsestsdue to mistakes on the part of the workmen, or to the dissatis- 76 GLOSSARY faction of the…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
Internet Archive · Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.