Fig. 229.
Fig. 230.
Fig. 231.
The engravings (Figs. [222 to 227]) showing a few of the forms taken from the illuminated MSS. of this and the succeeding period, are interesting examples. Some of these will be seen to owe their origin—as, for instance, Fig. [226]—to Roman design, while others are equally as clearly Franco-Gaulish in character. The Anglo-Saxons were not, like their Roman forerunners, an artistic race. They could not draw the form of the human figure correctly, nor, indeed, that of animals; but their delineations of jugs and pitchers are proved by existing examples to be pretty accurate. Their mind, as a rule, was coarse and unpoetic as their own beer, while that of the Roman was bright and sparkling as his own champagne.
Fig. 232.—From Kingston, in the Derby Museum.
