Catalogue of the ivory carvings of the Christian era with examples of Mohammedan art and carvings in bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (1909)
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 202
bottomed wig, above which arc the heads of a foxand a satyr: in the desk below is a clerk smiling sardonically. Icws and galleryare occupied by a congregation with grotesque and bestial faces, while before thefront pew stands a bear leaning on a cane. On the floor is a flat tombstone,of which only… … L. 4-3 in. Given by Major-General Meyrick, 1S7S. A. Maskell, Ivories, pi. lxvi. Orator Henley (1692-1756), whose autograph lectures are in the British Museum, claimedto have restored Church oratory. He was ridiculed in the fiuueiat/, and caricatured by Hogarthin the Oratory Chappel (a. D. 17941,…
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