Notes and sketches of an architect taken during a journey in the northwest of Europe; (1877)
Narjoux, Felix, 1836-1891 · Boston : J. R. Osgood · leaf 399
ms. On the opposite side is afanciful animal (Fig. 193) devouring a man, whose head alone isstill protruding from its jaws. The Danish archaeologists, as ingenious as those in France,suppose that the former subject represents the deceased strivingagainst evil, under the figure of the centaur. The… … Fig. 195. — Granite Font. Peter, Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about,seeking whom he may destroy. Granite baptismal font (Fig. 195). In the front of this is thefigure of a woman between two imaginary animals, who aregnawing her arms; the manner in which, according to…
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