Miscellanea graphica : representations of ancient, medieval, and renaissance remains in the possession of Lord Londesborough (1857)
London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 56
arched over, with a banner in front, and the lanthorn behind, and in the centre stands the steersman. Here, also, a banquet is laid out, at which four officers or nobles are seated. The hull of the vessel is chased all over with figures of mermaids and tritons, playing upon musical instruments, and… … provided with a knife, but there is no trace of forks, which were still unknown at the date of this nef, which belongs probably to the middle of the sixteenth century, and they appear not to have been known even in Italy, where they were first introduced, and where this nef was probably made, until…
Londesborough, Albert Denison, Baron, 1805-1860 -- Art collections · Art objects -- Private collections -- England
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