. An inquiry concerning the invention of printing : in which the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, Santander, and Koning are reviewed : including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, the block-books, etc. . ish this figure, which was eventhen in making after it should be cast, and the present agreement to gild it: and itappears from the following, that two years more passed over, before the marbler wasapplied to, to make the tomb itself. John Bourde of Corff-castle, in the county of Dorset, marbler, 16 Maii, 35 Hen. covenant to make a tombe of marble, to be set on th
. An inquiry concerning the invention of printing : in which the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, Santander, and Koning are reviewed : including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, the block-books, etc. . ish this figure, which was eventhen in making after it should be cast, and the present agreement to gild it: and itappears from the following, that two years more passed over, before the marbler wasapplied to, to make the tomb itself. John Bourde of Corff-castle, in the county of Dorset, marbler, 16 Maii, 35 Hen. covenant to make a tombe of marble, to be set on the said earles grave; the saidtombe to be made well, cleane, and sufficiently, of a good and fine marble, as well coloured as may be had in England, &c and to do all the work and workmanship about the same tombe to the entail, according to a portraicture delivered him, & .. I shall not attempt, further than I have done, to account for the irregular manner inwhich the above dates follow each other ; nor need I repeat what I have said, in speak-ing of Plate 12, of the very great resemblance of the armour of this figure to that ofthe figure of Abraham therein represented. Costume — ,! :hrti I Mori i i Ms. XXL. chap, xiv.] COSTUME FROM SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS, &c. 363 No. 3. Is taken from the monumental brass of Sir Brian Stapleton,(who died 1432), at Ingham Church, Norfolk. The tuilles, as theyare represented in some prints that I have seen of this figure, are notdivided in the middle; the line of separation having been inadver-tently omitted by the artists who drew and engraved them : for in animpression from the original brass, in the British Museum, this line isvery distinctly perceptible. Indeed, the want of this separation ofthe tuilles, had it existed, must have effectually prevented them frommoving up and down, according to the motion of the thighs, as wasintended. It is true, that in Plate 27, the reader will find a kneeling figure,having tuilles, apparently both of one p
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