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Title: Impressions of Westminster abbey, an illustrated text to accompany seven etchings
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hägg, Axel Herman, 1835-1921
Subjects: Westminster Abbey
Publisher: London : Dunthorne
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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-nently into view, on the right side of thepicture, the tomb of King Henry III.,during whose reign the greater portion ofthe present abbey was erected. The tomb,containing mosaics and fine slabs of por-phyry and marble, is the work of a Romanartist, and was finished some years afterHenrys death, which took place in 1272.Here is also to be seen the chantry ofHenry V., a rich mass of sculpture, callingto mind the great altar-pieces of someSpanish cathedrals. Centrally in the pic-ture is seen the fine Gothic monument ofLewis Robsart, who at the battle of Agin-court so distinguished himself that KingHenry V. made him his standard-bearer.The monument has unfortunately lost itsrecumbent figures. The tattered andnearly black banners suspended from thewalls of the Chapel of St. Pauls add aninterest of their own to the view, althoughsome have wished them away. This saidchapel is burdened with a colossal seatedstatue of Watt the engineer. That thisman, whose existence has been of such 6 ^ fy h^
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