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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Exhibited with the photographic copy of the Bayeux Tapestry in Gallery 79 are two plaster reproductions made by Charles Stothard to show the technique of the embroidery. One piece shows the head of Duke William, and is taken from Scene 17. The second shows the head of Harold at his coronation, and is taken from Scene 33. In the Mediæval Department of the British Museum is a third cast, of the head of a soldier, which has been copied from Scene 23.
[2] The Tapestry is 230 feet 9⅓ inches long and 19⅔ inches broad. 1,512 objects of different kinds are shown in the course of the work, made up of 623 persons, 55 dogs, 202 horses or mules, 505 other animals, 87 buildings, 49 trees, and 41 ships and boats. The subject of each scene is given above in Latin.
[3] For Miss Agnes Strickland’s theory that Turold was the designer of the Tapestry and Freeman’s comments thereon, see Freeman’s Norman Conquest, Vol. III., Appendix A. (2nd Edition).
[4] Conan II., Duke of Brittany, whose capital was Rennes.