I 54. Hijiory of C aricature and Grotejque
thofe which acknowledged the ecclefiaftical iilpremacy of the church of
Rome; whatever peculiarity of fiyle it took in particular countries, the
fame forms were fpread through
, ,f' all weliern Europe. Our next cut,
-5545 I No. 106, gives another of thefe
curious groups, conlifting, in faft, of
E1 " l two individuals, one of which is
K Y! evidently an ecclefiaftic. It will
it C5 be feen that, as we follow this
kg round, we obtain, by means of the
1 7 w" L." two heads, four different figures in fo
N" 106' A many totally This
group is taken from one of the very curious feats in the cathedral of
Rouen in Normandy, which were engraved and publiihed in an
Wm interefling volume by the late Moniieur E. H.
mm, Langlois.
I Among the moft intereiting of the mediaeval
llllluvr burlefque drawings are thofe which are found in
94 V ll" fuch abundance in the borders of the pages of
':m1lll"' 33 mtiw illuminated rnanufcripts. During the earlier
,0 H.
,4" o periods of the mediaeval miniatures, the favourite
_[l[lln, margin: L 1" objects for thefe borders were monftrous animals,
efpecially dragons, which could ealily be twined
P. into grotefque combinations. In courfe of time, the
J0 C fubjecls thus introduced became more numerous,
R 1 K and in the fifteenth century they were very varied.
Strange animals (till continued to be favourites, but
,1" they were more light and elegant in their forms,
Q9 and were more gracefully defigned. Our cut
' ' No. I07, taken from the beautifully-illuminated
"X _ manufcript of the romanceofthe" Comte d'Artois,"
Na. ml Bgrgfr Ommmh of the fifteenth century, which has furnithed us
previoufly with feveral cuts, will illuflrate my
meaning. The graceful lightnefs of the tracery of the foliage fhown in
this