Devon & Cornwall notes & queries . 0)3 cr UO O. o&.SoU THE MISERICORDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. Grotesque (No. 7).A bird with a human head. In general aspect and bearingit suggests a wren, but its tail is finished by stiff-leaf head is draped with something that would have beenrelatively about the size, on a human head, of a largehandkerchief. The face has a good tempered, whimsicalexpression. It stands on a branch, a good example of stiff-leaf foliage, and has terminals of the same style. Similarcomposites, birds with human or animals heads, are found atNotre Dame, Paris. Grotesque (N
Devon & Cornwall notes & queries . 0)3 cr UO O. o&.SoU THE MISERICORDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. Grotesque (No. 7).A bird with a human head. In general aspect and bearingit suggests a wren, but its tail is finished by stiff-leaf head is draped with something that would have beenrelatively about the size, on a human head, of a largehandkerchief. The face has a good tempered, whimsicalexpression. It stands on a branch, a good example of stiff-leaf foliage, and has terminals of the same style. Similarcomposites, birds with human or animals heads, are found atNotre Dame, Paris. Grotesque (No. 32).An amplification of No. 7; for though it has one humanhead it has two birds bodies, each with a foliated lizards tail,and it stands on human hands instead of feet. If either bodyis covered up, the head will serve quite satisfactorily for theother. There is no attempt to suggest feathers on thebodies, but, as the shape is rather that of a duck, the smootheffect may have been intentional. Possibly the foliated tailswere added to fill
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