TileWeb: Leicestershire (J551)

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County:	Leicestershire	Click on Image to see original watercolour
Town/Village:	Leicester
Place Details:
Artist and Date:	F Renaud 1887 October
Iconography:	Human figure
Copied from (Collection):	Soc of Antiq Ren III p 300
Watercolour Ref. No.:	J551
Notebook: FMP
Portfolio: Jas P,
Notebook: IH	4
Other details:	Two fragmentary tiles in the museum at Leicester on which the heads of a king and queen are displayed. Those of Edward I and his Queen judging from the disposition of the hair. Similar tiles were formerly to be seen in York Minster, one of which greatly worn is in the York Museum and sketched out on the opposite page. Though on a smaller scale, the design is the same. Mr Jewitt has figured the same tile amongst his Derbyshire series found at Wirksworth Church and shown that it made one of a pattern of four. In pencil: Bishop Compton 37.

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