 Cross affords sufficient proof that originally, not the figures only, but the entire surface of the stone 'work was thus enriched, the figures having best preserved these remains of colouring. The colours used were vermilion, blue, and gold. The gilding...  Notes on the Old Crosses of Gloucestershire - Seite 8von Charles Pooley - 1868 - 76 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Bristol and West of England architectural society - 1846 - 226 Seiten
...The dresses of the figures are usually painted vermillion; mantles and such portions of dress blue, borders, and other subsidiary ornamental parts, being...with gold. This surface of painting has long fallen to decay, and hangs in loose flakes. Generally one of the above-named colours may be seen in an intermediate... | |
 | 1852 - 688 Seiten
...the figxires were generally painted with vermilion, their mantles and minor portions of dress with blue, the borders and other subsidiary ornamental parts being relieved with gold. Besides the decay resulting from the neglect of a renewal of the paint, another destructive agency... | |
 | Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club - 1865 - 302 Seiten
...remains of colouring. The colours used were vermilion, blue, and gold. The gilding may be traced in every part, — on the ribs of the groining, &c. but...subsidiary ornamental parts, being relieved with gold. But this surface of painting has long fallen into * Memoirs Historical and Topographical of Bristol.... | |
 | 1893 - 362 Seiten
...of the figures were generally painted with vermilion, their mantles and minor portions of dress with blue, the borders and other subsidiary ornamental parts being relieved with gold. Besides the decay resulting from the neglect of a renewal of the paint, another destructive agency... | |
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