Heraldry as art : an account of its development and practice, chiefly in England (1907)
Eve, George W., d. 1914 · London : B.T. Batsford ; New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 91
ver-elaborated that in many instances the prevalenteffect is one of flufnness. Too much is made of the hair,especially in the legs, which are sometimes much moresuggestive of the well-feathered legs of a dorking fowlthan of the clean and powerful, though hairy, limb ofa lion; and with the lost… … Fig. qq.— The Coat of Arms with a Cock. A. Durer. 80 HERALDRY AS ART together with most of the other decorative qualities ofthe hated Gothic, and the efforts at naturalistic repre-sentation resulted in forms which at a little distancebecame mere undistinguishable blobs, to the completedefeat of the…
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