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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 248

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ction, being all pecuUar, and very muchreminding us of some of the Saxon illuminations of a dateearlier than that claimed for the glass. Dark ruby and ST. DENLS. 231 blue are the invariable predominant colours of the firstperiod. The two windows in St. Denis near Paris—one thehistory of Moses, the… … Tattcrn V^indow, supposed to be of 1135. De CaumoKt. of the subjects. These do not present any features verydistinct from many others preserved in France, and somein England, of a little later date. The tipper portions ofthe lights, above the double row of three circular medal-lions placed over…

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