Monasticon Anglicanum, or, The history of the ancient abbies, and other monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches in England and Wales. With divers French, Irish, and Scotch monasteries formerly relating to England
Monasticon Anglicanum is a 1693 London folio by Sir William Dugdale, a Latin-and-English history of English and Welsh monasteries, cathedrals and collegiate churches, published by Sam Keble and Hen. Rhodes. Its engraved plates show monastic and religious figures standing full length in long habits and cloaks against flat landscapes with small churches and buildings, one figure per plate, each named in the original scheme of the work. A designer could take from them the strong silhouettes of layered robes, cowls and hoods, and the stiff, dignified poses of seventeenth-century antiquarian engraving.
