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Windows; a book about stained & painted glass (1897)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 437

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more or less trivial functions, bearingscrolls or emblems, shields of arms even. They are not inthe least ethereal. They are too much on the model of manor woman. What possible business, for example, have theywith legs and feet ? Yet it is by the rarest chance that thebody is, as it were, lost in a… … 250. Fairford. DEVILS. 376 again by odd anachronisms in mediccval and even later illus-trations in glass. But wonder at them ceases when weremember how simple-minded was the craftsman of thosedays before archaeology. If he wished to picture scenes ofthe long past—and he did—there was nothing for it…

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