A PORTRAIT, ST. MARY’S MINSTER.
ISLE OF THANET.
A ROUGH CHARACTER, BAKEWELL.
Another curious instance of a grimace and posture maker, assisting his countenance’s contortions by the use of his fingers, is at Dorchester Abbey. In this the artist has not been master of the facial anatomy, and shows a double pair of lips, one pair in repose, the other pulled back at the corners.
GRIMACE MAKER, DORCHESTER, OXON.
Often a grotesque face will be found added to a beautiful design of foliage, either as the conventional mask, as in the design in Lincoln Chapter House, or a realistic head, as the following grim, dour visage between graceful curves on a misericord at King’s College, Cambridge.