2-750-479 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Decoration in St John the Baptist church, Grandson, Vaud, Switzerland, (1928). 'About 1500...Painting on an arch in Grandson Church. End of 15th or beginning of 16th century. Capital with scroll ornament; probably 9th or 10th century.' After V. H. Bourgeois. Plate LXXXII, fig 169, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]