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Identifier: artsinearlyengla03brow (find matches)
Title: The arts in early England
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956 Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980
Subjects: Art Architecture Architecture, Medieval Church architecture Crosses Decoration and ornament, Celtic Inscriptions, Runic
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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th due critical discernment a judgement highly favourableto the early Mercian pennies both as regards design andexecution, while of the Anglo-Saxon pieces in general hesays lempreinte etait distinctement imprimee. Si le tempsnen a pas efface ou enleve quelques parties, il est presqueimpossible de trouver sur la monnaye Anglo-Saxonne deslacunes provenant du defaut des ouvriers imprimeurs : commecela est commun aux monnayeurs du continent. La gravuredu type a aussi son merite particulier ; plus soignee, plusexpressive, elle etait plus correcte et observait plus le dessin etles ornemens. 1 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series,London, 1887-93, 1, xxii, xxvii, xxix, lxxvi. 2 1786-1861, Polish historian, geographer, and numismatist (Enc. Brit.).He lived in exile in Brussels for the last thirty years of his life, an ardentstudent and writer. The work quoted from is his Kumismatique du MoyenAge, Paris, 1835, pt. 11, p. 7. facing p. 59 ROMAN AND GERMANIC COINS
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All enlarged about two diameters IMPERIAL ROMAN SOLIDI 59 Premising that the subject is here approached from theartistic side, we may now go on to give some account of thesceat series, reserving for a future volume a similar notice ofthe stycas and the pennies. The reason for this separation isthat the sceattas are connected both in time and place with thefirst group of objects representing Anglo-Saxon art which formthe subject of the present volumes, whereas the stycas and laterpennies are connected, the one by place the other by time,with the carved stones, manuscripts, and later objects generally,to which a subsequent volume will be devoted. The early Anglo-Saxon coinage is only one of many issuedby the Teutonic conquerors of the western Roman empire.These are all based on the Roman imperial coinage which wasat first imitated as closely as possible. Tous les barbares,write Engel and Serrure,1 debuterent dans leur monnayagepar la copie litterale des types romains. The most important

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