Hedda of Winchester consecrates St Guthlac mb-code 42-64546300 Original drawing by George Richmond

Original drawing by George Richmond

Plate 48 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales

'How the Danes came up the Channel a thousand years ago'

The square design incorporates floral patterns and simple colours

Hedda of Winchester consecrates St Guthlac mb-code 42-64546300 Original drawing by George RichmondHedda of Winchester consecrates St Guthlac, late 12th century, (1843). The bishop wears sacerdotal dress consisting of albe, tunic, dalmatic and chasuble. Guthlac lived 673 714 AD. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).