English heraldry / [Charles Boutell].

  • Charles Boutell
Date:
1889
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Credit: English heraldry / [Charles Boutell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with the traditional peculiarities of their heraldic repre- sentatives. And we must extend the corresponding appli- cation of the same principles of treatment to imaginary beings and heraldic monsters, as they occur in our Heraldry. The shield, No. 24, of Prince John of Eltham, younger brother of Edward III., finely sculptured with his effigy in alabaster, in Westminster Abbey (a.d. 1336), and in perfect preservation, gives us characteristic examples of lions of the best heraldic era, their frames, attenuated as they are, being perfect types of fierce elasticity. With this shield may be grouped others, having admirably suggestive examples of heraldic lions of a somewhat later date, which are preserved upon the monuments of Edward III. and the Black Prince.
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