Lessons in the art of illuminating : a series of examples selected from works in the British Museum, Lambeth Palace Library, and the South Kensington Museum (1895)
Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839-1911, author · London ; Glasgow : Blackie & Son · leaf 15
and his courtiers. A very fine Book of Hours was in the Bragge Collection, and must have been written in the sixteenth century, perhaps for some widow of rank in France. It contained sixteen miniatures which closely resembled Limoges enamels, the only decided color used being the carnation for the… … ators became the first miniature painters; and the succession of English artists is carried on from Godemann and Paris, through Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) and Isaac Oliver (1556-1617), to the school of Cooper (1609-1672) and Dobson, whose portraits are on vellum. Short as is this survey of the…
Illumination of books and manuscripts
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