Plate XX. Flying Buttresses. [image 335x500 pixels]

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Image title:	Plate XX. Flying Buttresses.
Source:	Thompson, A. Hamilton: “The Cathedral Churches of England” (1925)
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Keywords:	churches, diagrams, cathedrals, colour
Status:	out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive.

	A caption identifies this as Plate xx (although on the image, in the upper right, the text Pl. LXIII appears, along with a reproduction of a French library stamp). The caption reads as follows: Drawings by a Master Mason. 2. THE FLYING BUTTRESSES OF A CATHEDRAL CHURCH (from the Sketch book of Wilars do Honecort.) Of a mason’s habit of sketching objects which struck him upon his travels we have an invaluable instance in the notebook of the French master-mason Wilars de Honecort, who was employed on the design of the thirteenth-century cathedral of Cambrai: here we find rough plans and elevations, drawings of mechanical devices for use in building, sketches of church furniture and studies of men and animals, which show the variety of his art. (p. 141)
Dimensions:	85 x 150mm (3.3 x 5.9 inches)
Filename:	145-Flying-Buttresses-335x500.jpg
Blog image:	http://fromoldbooks.org/r/2h/145-Flying-Buttresses-335x500.jpg
Blog link:	http://fromoldbooks.org/r/2h/pages/145-Flying-Buttresses/
Scanner dpi:	800
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Image title:

Plate XX. Flying Buttresses.

Source:

Thompson, A. Hamilton: “The Cathedral Churches of England” (1925)

Place shown:

none

Keywords:

churches, diagrams, cathedrals, colour

Status:

out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested
Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive.

A caption identifies this as Plate xx (although on the image, in the upper right, the text Pl. LXIII appears, along with a reproduction of a French library stamp). The caption reads as follows:

Drawings by a Master Mason.
2. THE FLYING BUTTRESSES OF A CATHEDRAL CHURCH
(from the Sketch book of Wilars do Honecort.)

Of a mason’s habit of sketching objects which struck him upon his travels we have an invaluable instance in the notebook of the French master-mason Wilars de Honecort, who was employed on the design of the thirteenth-century cathedral of Cambrai: here we find rough plans and elevations, drawings of mechanical devices for use in building, sketches of church furniture and studies of men and animals, which show the variety of his art. (p. 141)

Dimensions:

85 x 150mm (3.3 x 5.9 inches)

Filename:

145-Flying-Buttresses-335x500.jpg

Blog image:

http://fromoldbooks.org/r/2h/145-Flying-Buttresses-335x500.jpg

Blog link:

http://fromoldbooks.org/r/2h/pages/145-Flying-Buttresses/

Scanner dpi:

800

Unmarked:

You can get a version of this image without the watermark at the lower right corner by requesting it here; The images are watermarked to help people find where they came from if they get reposted to blogs or other sites. Images under 1200 pixels on a side are still free, although I will ask for a donation :-)

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