1875

THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY Reproduced in Autotype Plates. With historic notes by Frank Rede Fowke

191 Pages

Printed by The Arundel Society founded at London in 1849 and named after the Earl of Arundel, the famous collector of the Arundel Marbles and one of the first great English patrons and lovers of the arts. The society was originally the idea of the lawyer Bellenden Ker and was founded at a meeting in the house of the famous painter Charles Eastlake, attended by Eastlake, Ker, Giovanni Aubrey Bezzi, and Edmund Oldfield. The society's purpose was to promote knowledge of the art works of the old Italian, Flemish, and other European masters. The society was discontinued in 1897.