medieval pottery will be found in Mr Jewitt’s _Life of Wedgwood_,
London, 1865. For ancient pottery in general (excluding however the
medieval) see Dr Birch’s _Ancient Pottery and Porcelain_, London,
1858, which will conduct the student to the most authentic sources
of information. In connection with this should be studied Mr
Bunbury’s article in the _Edinburgh Review_ for 1858, to which Mr
Oldfield’s paper on Sir W. Temple’s vases in the _Transactions of
the Royal Soc. of Lit._ Vol. VI. pp. 130-149 (1859), may be added.
—— For medieval sculpture see Flaxman’s _Lectures_. The ‘horrible
and burlesque’ style of the earlier ages was discarded in the
thirteenth century, when the art revived in Italy. Italian artists
executed various sepulchral statues in this country, which possess
considerable merit, as do others by native artists, but the great
beauty of our sepulchral monuments consists in their architectural
decorations.
p. 49. For the coinage of the British Islands see the works of
Ruding, Hawkins, and Lindsay, also for the Saxon coins found in
great numbers in Scandinavia, Hildebrand and Schröder. Humphreys’
popular work on the coinage of the British Empire, so far as the
plates are concerned, is useful, but the author is deficient in
scholarship.
p. 52. For the statements here made on oil-painting see Bryan’s
_Dict. of Painters and Engravers_, by Stanley, (London, 1849), under
Van Eyck, and Sir C. L. Eastlake’s _Materials for a History of
Oil-painting_. (London 1847.)
p. 53. For medieval brasses, see
Bowtell, _Monumental Brasses and Slabs_. London, 1847, 8vo.
——— _Monumental Brasses of England, a Series of engravings in wood_.
London, 1849.
Haines, _Manual of Monumental Brasses_. 2 parts. London, 1861, 8vo.
This contains also a list of all the brasses known to him as
existing in the British Isles. Mr Way has given an account of
foreign sepulchral brasses in _Archæol. Journ._, Vol. VII.
p. 56. Several English frescoes are described and figured in the
_Journal of the Archæological Association_, passim.
p. 62, l. 13. The omission of ancient costume has been pointed out
to me. The _actually existing_ specimens however are mostly very
late; with the exception of a few articles of dress found in Danish
sepulchres of the bronze period, or in Irish peat bogs of uncertain
date, the episcopal vestments of Becket now preserved at Sens are
the earliest which occur to my recollection; and there are few
articles of dress, I believe, so early as these. However both
ancient and medieval costume is well known from the
_representations_ on monuments of various kinds. See _inter alia_
Hope’s _Costume of the Ancients_; Becker’s _Gallus_ and _Charicles_;
Strutt’s _Dress of the English People_, edited by Planché, (Lond.
1842); Shaw’s _Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages_.
p. 67. The statement about Patin is made on the authority of a note
in Warton’s edition of Pope’s Works, Vol. III. p. 306. (London
1797.)
p. 68. The remark about the crab was made to me by the late Mr
Burgon, and I do not know whether it has ever been printed; its
truth seems pretty certain. For the Rhodian symbol see my paper in
the _Numismatic Chronicle_ for 1864, pp. 1-6.
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An Introduction to the Study of Greek Fictile Vases; their
Classification, Subjects, and Nomenclature. Being the substance
of the Disney Professor’s Lectures for 1865, and of those which
he purposes to deliver in 1866.
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