From, Beautiful Buildings in France & Belgium, Including many which have been destroyed during the war. Reproductions in Colour and Monochrome from rare old Prints and Drawings, by and after Prout, Boys, Coney, W. Callow, David Roberts, C. Wild and others, with descriptive notes, by C. Harrison Townsend, F.R.I.B.A.; New York: The Hubbell Publishing Co., 1916; pp. 62-65.
BRUGES : LES HALLES AND BELFRY
(J. Coney)
ONEY, of whose drawings this collection has several examples, was an architectural draughtsman of great skill, and noteworthy as being amongst the earliest of artists to devote himself with enthusiasm to the recording of those Gothic buildings so much out of repute in his day. His rendering, however — charming as his drawing is — of the Belfry and old Market Hall of Bruges has to yield, as regards proportion and detail, to that of
Prout as shown in the last Plate.
The Hall dates from the XIIth and XIVth centuries, but was largely altered and modified 64 in 1561-8. Built as a Cloth-hall — that civic building of which so many Belgian cities give us examples — one wing of it now contains the municipal offices, and the other for the last hundred years has been used as a meat-market.
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