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| Image title: | Decorative chapter head with winged creatures |
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| Source: | Rodwell, G. F.: “South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe” (1877) |
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| Keywords: | chapterheads, greyscale |
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A decorative woodcut used at the start of the chapter on Milan; there are dragons, or possibly gryphons but with tails like serpents, and in the centre a face with hair done in pigtails; the whole is rather like the decoration one might see on a Roman sarcophagus. |
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