Fig. 210.—Design for Stained Glass in the Houses of Parliament. Drawn by John Powell.
Fig. 211.—Unicorn. Cartoon for Stained Glass, Royal Gallery, Houses of Parliament.
Fig. 212.—The White Boar of Richard III. Cartoon for Stained Glass. Royal Gallery, Houses of Parliament.
Fig. 213.—The Royal Crest. Cartoon for Stained Glass. Royal Gallery, Houses of Parliament.
The comparative smallness of the Royal Crest in Fig. 213 is due to the designer’s intention to bring the head into the central line of the composition with a view to upstanding effect, and in this respect is of course a reasonable problem to have solved. Whether, however, it was worth while so to sacrifice the larger proportion which the lion would have had to the crown in mediaeval design is another matter.
Nevertheless, the whole series of work is finely designed and beautifully drawn with clearly thought-out intentions as a whole, and with much delightful fancy in the variation of the decorated detail, and to conclude this very interesting series Fig. 214 is from a coloured drawing of the white swan of the de Bohuns that was one of the badges of Henry IV.
