Her huge long tail her den all overspread,
Yet was in knots and many boughts [
folds
] up-wound,
Pointed with mortal sting.
Spenser, Faëry Queen, i. 1 (1590).
Error of Artists, (See ANACHRONISMS).
ANGELO (Michel), in his great picture of the "Last Judgment" has introduced Charon's bark.
BREUGHEL, the Dutch painter, in a picture of the "Wise Men of the East" making their offerings to the infant Jesus, has represented one of them dressed in a large white surplice, booted and spurred, offering the model of a Dutch seventy-four to the infant.
ETTY has placed by the bedside of Holofernes a helmet of the period of the seventeenth century.