The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use / 'The Strad' Library, No. III.

by Henry Saint-George

FIG. 21.

These appear to me as being most probably conventional representations, or copied from older works as suggested above.

FIG. 22.

Of fifteenth century bows, the pictorial and plastic arts record those shown in Fig. 23, together with the usual atavism or return to earlier types.

FIG. 23.

This atavism, if credible, is most marked in the sixteenth century as witness those in Fig. 24.

FIG. 24.