The industrial arts of Scandinavia in the pagan time (1883)
Hildebrand, Hans, 1842-1913 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman & Hall · leaf 32
ot being able to get as many as they wished, commencedto copy them. We can easily imagine what the character ofsuch copies would be : a distorted representation of the imperialhead and of the figures of the reverse, a poor attempt to re-produce the Roman letters, that conveyed no meaning to… … Fig. 7.—Barbarian copy of a Roman medallion. Found in Sweden. One of the latter is here figured (Fig. 7): ou the obverse is thebust of the emperor with one hand raised before his breast; as isseen in the medals of Constantius II., and a meaningless tran-script of the original legend; on the reverse…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
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