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Title: The grotesque in church art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Wildridge, Thomas Tindall
Subjects: Grotesque Christian art and symbolism Church decoration and ornament
Publisher: London, W. Andrews & co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ehicle is not thetumbril but a wheelbarrow, and the man propelling it isyounger than the lady, who is pulling his hair. I imaginethe man is apprentice or husband, and is not very cheerfullytrundling his companion home. A similar, but more definitemisericorde is in Ripon Cathedral. In this barrow, the old woman, wearing a cap with haton the top, as yet occasionally seen in country places, isseated in a mistress-like way. She is not committing anyviolence, but apparently is offering the man (call him thebridegroom) his choice of either a bag of money with dutifulobedience, or a huge cudgel, which she wields with muscularpower, with dereliction. The gem of the carving is the mansface. He smiles a quiet, amused, satirical smile, as of one whowould say, Tis no harm to humour these foolish old bodies,and must be done, I trow. But the object called a bag of money is as likely to bea bottle, and the whole subject may be something quitedifferent. She may be going to the doctor, or offering the
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THE DOMESTIC AND POPULAR. *39 man a drink ; or it may be Noah wheeling his wife into theArk, which, it was one of the jokes in a Mystery play tosuppose she was very unwilling to enter.

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