Anglo-Norman antiquities considered, in a tour through part of Normandy

Ducarel, Andrew Coltee, 1713-1785, Bayly, J, Noel, Montfaucon, Bernard de, 1655-1741. Monumens de la monarchie françoise, Spilsbury, Thomas, -1795 · 1767 · London, printed for the author, by T. Spilsbury, MDCCLXVII. And sold by S. Baker and G. Leigh, in York-Street, Covent Garden; P. Vaillant, in the Strand; T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate; W. Owen, at Temple-Bar; and J. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard · 18 pictures

Ducarel's 1767 London antiquarian travel account of Anglo-Norman architecture and monuments in Normandy, written for English readers and collectors of antiquities. The plates show architectural elevations and plans of churches, carved capitals and tombs, and a long strip of Bayeux tapestry embroidery copied in outline. A designer might take from them the dense, ruled-line engraving style of antiquarian survey drawings, with their tidy elevation grids and figure-filled decorative borders.

Bayeux tapestry · Architecture, Anglo-Norman

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