Archaeologia cantiana (1897) (14598168968)

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Title: Archaeologia cantiana

Year: 1897 (1890s)

Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn

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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society

Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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OBLITERATED FRESCO IN CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL SHOWING THE LIFE OF ST EUSTACE

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C.F. KELL. PHOTO. PROCESS. 8 George. Ausliw, Senior. MARTYRDOM OF ST EUSTACE, HIS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN,IN A FURNACE OF OIL SHAPED LIKE AN OX. FROM A FRESCO IN THE NORTH AISLE OF THE CHO.R OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, IN CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. 39 dently does not represent a Eoman soldier. His smallhunting horn of white metal (perhaps of silver) is clearly tobe discerned hanging from his girdle. The figure is there-fore more like that of Hubert than that of Eustace. Nevertheless, at the apex of the fresco the martyrdom ofSt. Eustace is very graphically shewn. Not only is thebrazen bull very prominent, but, in the drawing made, morethan fifty years ago, by Mr. George Austin, senior, weobserve the figures of St. Eustace and his wife and theirtwo children within the brazen bull. Two attendants withladles are pouring boiling oil upon the wife and on one ofthe children. Both Eustace and his wife are held in positionby men with huge forks. Beneath the brazen ox a fire isburning, the flames of whi

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