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moss M
moss Jul 13, 2007 09:11:56
Replying to Hob

according to Burl - Great Stone Circles (got it last week for £10)

who's wittering on about stones not being there in the prints....


"a derivative watercolour By William Smith as well as an engraving dated 1575 by R.F. (and an incompetent RE-ENGRAVING for the 1600 edition of Camden's Britannia). ... There are obvious absurdities in the Camden........ a walled castle in a mountainous background, presumably a misunderstanding of the Latin 'castrum'; trilithions linked together like a medieval mass gallows and with stones missing or misplaced"..

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VenerableBottyBurp Jul 13, 2007 11:29:51
Replying to moss

moss wrote:
according to Burl - Great Stone Circles (got it last week for £10)

who's wittering on about stones not being there in the prints....


"a derivative watercolour By William Smith as well as an engraving dated 1575 by R.F. (and an incompetent RE-ENGRAVING for the 1600 edition of Camden's Britannia). ... There are obvious absurdities in the Camden........ a walled castle in a mountainous background, presumably a misunderstanding of the Latin 'castrum'; trilithions linked together like a medieval mass gallows and with stones missing or misplaced"..

Re incompetent we might think about it being imaginative, it could be that the artist was never there (this must have been quite usual before bikes) and was working from another drawing, or might have seen the site and the drawing but was adding the 'castrum' in some imagined haze.

Though might be a bit early for reinvented Gothic I suppose.

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