Some account of domestic architecture in England, from Richard II to Henry VIII (1859)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford London, J. H. and J. Parker · leaf 191
Jacobean work, and is then frequently accom-panied by the date. Texts of Scripture or moral axiomswere often used in the later examples, a custom stillcontinued in parts of Switzerland. In a descriptive passage belonging to the earlier partof this century, we have an allusion to the decoration… … THE CHAMBERS AND OFFICES. 109 TKe walls of the principal apartments were usuallycased with wainscot to the height of about eight feet,above which were sometimes hangings of tapestry, orother cloth, as at the upper end of St. Marys Hall,Coventry. In a letter written by Sir John Howard toone of his…
Architecture, Domestic
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