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    Posted 11 years ago

    vetraio50
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    A Mystery Card!

    A card from the Valentine's Series.

    Look carefully at the photo card and you will see an interesting detail….

    Where’s Scamp?

    A diary entry from November 24th, 1884 by William Thomson might be a clue:

    "Scamp killed three rats yesterday, and one the night before. The last one was very large, and it bit him, but he finished it in good workmanlike style, I hear. I have a levee to-morrow in York."

    The cards so far have covered the East, West and North Transepts of the York Minster. The Southern Transept suffered a disastrous fire on the night of Monday 9th July 1984 about a hundred years after this photo was taken. Roof cave-ins failed to damage this monumental statue to a former Archbishop of York, William Thomson who died in 1890.

    The Most Rev. William Thomson FRS, FRGS (11 February 1819 – 25 December 1890) was an English church leader, Archbishop of York from 1862 until his death.

    The memorial to Archbishop Thomson in the south transept at York Minster was designed by George Frederick Bodley; the effigy by Sir John Hamo Thornycroft RA and other carving by Farmer & Brindley.

    Scamp was the terrier which attached itself in great devotion to the Archbishop, and during his last illness the dog hardly left him, but lay on his bed and showed much affection. After the Archbishop's death, when Hamo Thornycroft executed for the Public Memorial Committee a marble monument for erection in York Minster, the figure of Scamp was placed at the feet of the recumbent effigy and can be seen there to-day.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson_(bishop

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    Comments

    1. SEAN68 SEAN68, 11 years ago
      VERY VERY BEAUTIFUL!!!
    2. inky inky, 11 years ago
      Great! card..just look at all that lovely detail!....:-)
    3. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      Many thanks SEAN, NUTSABOTAS, INKY, AGHCOLLECT, NADIA 'n AIMATHENA too!
    4. racer4four racer4four, 11 years ago
      Extraordinary. The stonework in those finial things (I'm sure you will know their correct name) one the wall above the effigy is so beautiful!
    5. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      Many thanks KAREN, KERRY, TOM, PHIL 'n MANIKIN!
    6. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      Many thanks ANTIQUEROSE 'n MIKELV too!
    7. SEAN68 SEAN68, 11 years ago
      Your very welcome Kevin!!
    8. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      Many thanks DON, TED STRAUB, LEAH G, SEAN 'n ANTIQUES IN NJ too!
    9. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      Many thanks GARY!
    10. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      Many thanks GARGOYLECOLLECTOR!
    11. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      Many thanks NORDICMAN!
    12. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      Karen I think I may have the technical term for the canopy above the Statue: I think it might be a "Baldacchino" or "Baldachin" or "Baldaquin".
    13. racer4four racer4four, 11 years ago
      Thanks just looking that up. Do you think it is enough of a canopy to meet that term?
      This is just the sort of hunt you love, no?
    14. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      Many thanks ROYCROFTBOOKSFROMME!

      I think it might fit. The normal term is a canopy but I think the effect is the same as a Baldacchino, no?
    15. racer4four racer4four, 11 years ago
      OK baldacchino it is! Or maybe a ciborium?
      (just testing!)
    16. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      I think a 'ciborium' is the same thing, though my Catholic background tells me that there is another object used in the Mass with that name too. The architectural version is normally placed over altars.

      This is a Victorian wall mounted version of the larger tomb structures. It's like it has beeb sliced through, a 'trompe oeil'!
    17. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      Thanks yet again SEAN!
    18. Budek Budek, 11 years ago
      Very touching, now I'd love to go and see it.
      Thanks, Kevin,
      T
    19. vetraio50 vetraio50, 11 years ago
      Many thanks TONINO!
    20. vetraio50 vetraio50, 6 years ago
      Many thanks THOMAS !.!!.!.!!.!
    21. vetraio50 vetraio50, 6 years ago
      Many thanks BROOCHMAN !.!!.!.!!.!

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