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Birds of the Zouche Chapel

A wren picking at a cobweb, a jay burying an acorn, magpies, doves, hawks, and other birds in York Minster show how mediaeval glass painters, like carvers of misericords and grotesques, were very fond of earthy, humorous, even profane subjects.

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Uploaded on August 6, 2017
Taken on July 1, 2017