. Archaeologia cantiana. e Elizabethan artists pictured tomb,Coles engraving shews a long fish, as if it were swimmingin water. May it not be the fact that, during 160 years, thecolour used by the Elizabethan artist had begun to decay,and thus in the year 1726 the original base of the pictureof St. Christopher was becoming visible, through the laterwork by which it had been overlaid ? Certainly the workof decay in the Elizabethan colouring had progressed veryconsiderably before Mr. Austin made his sketch. Otherwisehe could not have filled in all the details of fishes and waterwhich appear in t
. Archaeologia cantiana. e Elizabethan artists pictured tomb,Coles engraving shews a long fish, as if it were swimmingin water. May it not be the fact that, during 160 years, thecolour used by the Elizabethan artist had begun to decay,and thus in the year 1726 the original base of the pictureof St. Christopher was becoming visible, through the laterwork by which it had been overlaid ? Certainly the workof decay in the Elizabethan colouring had progressed veryconsiderably before Mr. Austin made his sketch. Otherwisehe could not have filled in all the details of fishes and waterwhich appear in that sketch. In the Elizabethan picture, as engraved by Cole forMr. Darts History of the Cathedral Church, above the Divinename in its Hebrew characters we read the text, Beati mortuiqui in Domino moriuntur. These words of the Vulgate ver-sion of the Bible run in a straight line, at about the level ofthe waist of St. Christopher in the ancient fresco, of the fif-teenth century. In the Elizabethan picture painted after the. Georye Austin., Senr (died/ irv 184-8) KS • ho-boon l ST CHRISTOPHER . FORMERLY ON THE NORTH WEST WALL OF THE CORONO IN CANTERBURY CATHEDRA! J IN CANTEltBUllY CATHEDRAL. 37 death of Cardinal Pole, we see a ceiled room, the ceilingwhereof is divided into many rectangular panels with a rose inthe centre of each panel. From the centre of the ceiling hangsa light burning within a glass lantern. In the wall of theroom are two rectangular windows, each glazed with fifteenrectangular panes. Beneath the hanging lamp, within aroundel supported, in mid air, by two cherubs,* is CardinalPoles symbol or badge and his motto:—a globe, aroundwhich is coiled a serpent on the head of which a dove isperched, around the whole, as a roundel, is the motto, Estotejprudentes sicuti serpentes et simplices sicut columbce.* At eachend of the room, as in a doorway, stands a figure (perhapsfemale). One of these figures supports a kite-shaped shieldbearing the arms of the See of Ca
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