Punch at the Crystal Palace: No. III—The Medieval Courts [3/3]
Anon
Genre: | Serial, Reportage, Drollery |
Subjects: | Palaeontology, Exhibitions, Hunting, Comparative Philology |
Claims that on entering the 'German Court from the Byzantine', the visitor will see an 'equestrian statue [...] of a knight in armour spearing a Pterodactyle, or flying saurian'. Adds that the 'warrior is, of course, the celebrated St. George; the reptile the equally celebrated dragon'. (91) | |
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