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tion. They are both of the Flamboyant style. I may also 

 notice some good and some faulty sjDecimens given in those 

 two grand works,—" Monograph iede laCathedrale deBourges," 

 — and Lasteyrie's "History of Glass." Of the former, I may cite 

 the medallion windows in PI. iv. vi. yii. xii. xiv., as well as 

 Etude xi. fig. 4, from Sens, giving the History of the Prodigal 

 Son ; though in this the colours are not all quite accurately 

 copied.* PI. x. giyes another specimen of medallion glass, 

 but in that plate it has a heavier appearance than in the 

 original; I may also mention PI. xn. and xin. and others; 

 and in the mosaic borders are some good combinations of 

 form and colour, especially in those marked 8, 4, of Cologne, 

 Mans, Troyes, Angers, Chalons, St. Denis, and Lyon. In the 

 mosaic grounds marked " Mosaiques," PI. E, fig. 2 is far too 

 green, as are 6 and 8, which have a disagreeable effect. In 

 the PI. Or they are very faulty, and are of later date, from 

 Strasburg and Friburg; but in Ph K they are of a better 

 style. In PI. n. they are also good; but in the "Mosaiques," 

 PI. F, from Soissons, &c, the medallions with mere patterns 

 and without figures are very objectionable. 



In Lasteyrie, PI. in. and iv. are the old windows of St. Denis, 

 which are very interesting from being the earliest known speci- 

 mens of figures in medallions, and present an instance of the 

 arrangement of the red lines crossing a blue ground with a 

 yellow dot at their junction. The three upper medallions of 

 each window, having patterns instead of figures, appear to be 

 of a different date. In PI. xvi. is another medallion window, 

 from Tours, " of the xinth century," of good design ; and in 

 PI. xxix. is another early medallion window from the Sainte- 

 Chapelle, but this has a fault in the want of variety in the 

 forms of the medallions, and the recurrence of the same 



* The scene represents the feeding of the pigs, &c. ; and the colours in these 

 plates are generally wanting in richness compared with those on the glass. 







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