CHURCH OF S. SERNIN, TOULOUSE.
The choir of this church is enclosed by iron screens of remarkable design and beautiful execution, [figured] in the plates.
They are evidently a work of the middle or latter part of the fifteenth century. The lilies and leaves bent up out of the iron plates are produced with wonderful skill. Some of the lateral chapels in the same church have corresponding screen-work, and as Toulouse is a city partaking much of the Spanish character in its buildings, streets, &c., I am inclined to think that it has also borrowed the design of this screen-work from Spain; as Seville, Toledo, and other great churches, have curious iron screens, reaching forty or fifty feet in height, and of a very similar description of work. In the same plate with the Toulouse iron-work, I have figured a screen from the cathedral of Toledo, from which the great similarity of style may be readily perceived.