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A barnstar to this image[编辑]
The engraver John Pine writes in the preface to his The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords (1739):
"because time, or accident, or moths may deface these valuable shadows, which, by being multiplied and dispersed in various hands, may meet with that security from the closets of the curious, which the originals must scarce always hope for, even from the sanctity of the place they are kept in."
He was prescient: the tapestries from which his works were based were burned in the in 1834 the Houses of Parliament fire, and Pine’s engravings are now the surviving pictorial record of the epic battle.
I just have to marvel at this: from a witnessed event to a chart to a tapestry to a delineation to an engraving to a digital photograph to the screen, to our eyes - a path spanning four centuries. Wow! I award this image its own barnstar for adaptability and perseverance.-Wormcast (talk) 23:29, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
