The Bayeux Tapestry: : A History and Description

  • Author(s): Frank Rede Fowke
  • Category: Textiles, Clothing & Accessories
  • Publisher: G. Bell & sons
  • Publish year: 1913
  • ISBN: 9678000007261
  • Number of Pages: 312

The present volume, confined to a history of the tapestry,and to an explanation of the incidents which it depicts, appears in a more accessible form.In preparing the plates, advantage has been taken of a method of photographic reproduction recently invented by Count Ostrorog.This method avoids the employment of a " mesh,and consequently obviates the well-known chequered appearance in the picture which is inseparable from the ordinary " process-block."

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Table of Contents:

Copyright

PREFACE

LIST OF PLATES

HISTORY OF THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY

MODE OF EXECUTION AND THE MATERIALS EMPLOYED

THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY - EDWARD REX - KING EADWARD PLATE 1

PLATES I., II. and III.

ECCESIA:THE CHURCH - PLATE III

PLATES IV,V AND VI

HAROLD - PLATES VI AND VII

PLATES VIII AND IX

PLATES IX AND X

PLATES XI AND XII

PLATES XIV,XV AND XVI

PLATES XVI AND XVII

PLATE XVIII

PLATES XVIII,XIX AND XX

PLATES XX AND XXI

PLATES XXII AND XXIII

PLATES XXIII,XXIV AND XXV

PLATES XXVI AND XXVII

PLATES XXVII,XXVIII AND XXIX

PLATES XXIX AND XXX

PLATES XXX AND XXXI

PLATE XXXII

PLATES XXXII AND XXXIII

PLATE XXXIV

PLATES XXXV AND XXXVI

PLATES XXXVI,XXXVII AND XXXVIII

PLATES XXXVIII AND XXXIX

PLATES XLI,XLII AND XLIV

PLATES XLIV AND XLV

PLATES XLV AND XLVI

PLATES XLVI,XLVII AND XLVIII

PLATES XLVIII AND XLIX

PLATES L AND LI

PLATES LI AND LII

PLATE LIII

PLATES LIV,LV,LVI AND LVII

PLATES LVII,LVIII AND LIX

PLATES LX., LXL, LXIL, LXIIL, LXIV., LXV. AND LXVI.

PLATES LXVIL, LXVIII. and LXIX.

PLATES LXIX., LXX. AND LXXL

INDEX