Early drawings and illuminations : an introduction to the study of illustrated manuscripts, with a dictionary of subjects in the British Museum
A scholarly introduction to illuminated manuscripts, written in 1879 by Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner for London readers and students, with a dictionary of subjects drawn from the British Museum's collection. The plates show medieval religious images in gilt, ink and wash, including an enthroned Virgin with the Christ child, a scene of Christ harrowing hell, and an evangelist seated at a desk beneath an angel. A designer could draw on their framed compositions, decorative borders and stiff, shallow figure poses.
