Thrones

NOTES: In addition to being a landscape and architectural painter, lithographer and archaeologist, Bouet was also appointed Inspecteur de la Societe Francaise d'Archeologie. This drawing is one of a number of topographical studies and details of French, German, Italian and Swiss medieval architecture executed by him between around 1850 and 1865.

NOTES: The cathedral, also known as the Kaiserdom (Imperial Cathedral), was built by Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, in 792-805. The Palatine Chapel, designed by Odo of Metz, holds the remains of Charlemagne (742-814) and was the site of coronations for 600 years.

NOTES: The Cosmati were a Roman family which included seven generations of architects, sculptors and workers in mosaic. Cosmatesque mosaic technique involved the elaborate inlaying of small triangles and rectangles of colored stones and glass mosaics into stone matrices or surfaces.

NOTES: This design is by an unidentified 17th century Italian architect.

NOTES: These studies are part of a volume of mosaic designs recorded by Matranga during the restoration of mosaics in churches in Italy and Scotland in around 1850.

NOTES: These studies are part of a volume of mosaic designs recorded by Matranga during the restoration of mosaics in churches in Italy and Scotland in around 1850.

NOTES: These studies are part of a volume of mosaic designs recorded by Matranga during the restoration of mosaics in churches in Italy and Scotland in around 1850.

NOTES: The Church of All Saints, Leek, was built in 1885 to designs by Richard Norman Shaw.

NOTES: This drawing has been attributed to Adam Lee and was produced for the last ever impeachment trial to be held by the House of Lords. Henry Dundas, Lord Melville and First Lord of the Admiralty had been accused of the misappropriation of public money while treasurer of the Admiralty between 1782 and 1800. His trial ended in an acquittal.