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Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1861)

Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 · London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 134

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his head, afterfive centuries and a half. Close at hand is also the tombof Philippa, wife of Edward III., one of the noblest, bothin the portrait sculpture of the statue and in generaldesign, as at first erected. The brazen statuettes of thekings, princes, and others, her relative,^, originally… … Queen Philippa, died 13f Westminster Abbey. Edward III., died 1377. ages. Memorials of battles and other events took the shapeof crosses. The structures for shelter or for municipalproclamations in the marketplaces took this form. WhenEdward I. recorded the stages of the mournful processionto Queen…

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