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Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Pictures Belonging to the Society of Antiquaries: Somerset House, London
VIII. The compartment immediately below the preceding, contains three kneeling figures, each under a separate arcade, with groined roof, in a small apartment with two windows; the one facing the spectator, and the other seen sideways, and in very tolerably drawn perspective. In the right-hand arch (and next to where the altar must have stood) kneels, or rather bends, with great reverence, St George, the patron saint of England. He turns his head right round over his shoulder towards the King, and stretches out his left hand, touching the King's arm, and with his right hand points upwards. His back, with the great cross on it, is turned to the spectator. His arm and hand pass behind the pier of the arches dividing his compartment from the King's. King Edward III. Appears in the next division of the arcade, with both hands raised in prayer, kneeling with both knees upon a richly tiled floor. No cushion is introduced on the ground, and the lower part of the figures of the Queen and her daughters, who knelt correspondingly on the south side of the altar, is too much obliterated to judge whether this luxury was afforded to them.
Behind the King, and quite alone, is Edward the Black Prince, with youthful face, and with his body more fully turned towards the spectator. Part however of his figure, and all the lower part of the brother following him, have been destroyed by the insertion of a square shelf or projecting block of stone. Dimensions, 2 ft 2 in. By 1 ft 6 in.
IX. The four remaining sons of Edward III. Are all equally cased in armour, and kneeling on a rich pavement. The third son does not fold his hands in prayer, but raises his palms openly as adopted in the earlier modes of Christian adoration. The youngest son, being but an infant, and nevertheless in full armour, is raised on a pedestal and placed apart in a smaller niche, which comes immediately below the boy holding the white horse for one of the kings. The extremities of these two subjects were, in fact, painted on the northern wall of the chapel at an angle with the rest of the series. Dimensions, 2 ft 2 in. By 1 ft 5-1, in.
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