[White's Club coat of arms] [graphic]

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Title: [White's Club coat of arms] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Cog it amor nummi
Creator: Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
Published / Created: [1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A satirical coat of arms, engraved heraldically, with cards, dice, Earls coronet (Lord Darlington) shaking a dice-box. The arms are encircled by a claret bottle ticker, by way of order. Designed by Horace Walpole and friends (Dick Edgecumbe, and George Selwyn among others).
Description: Caption title from motto engraved in the banner.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark to form an octagon.
Date from British Museum catalogue.
The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly shelved as part of the SH Contents collection.
Mounted on page 62 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
1 print : engraving on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 11.3 x 13.3 mm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : image 112 x 130 mm
Language: Latin

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Engravings England 1756
Material: engraving ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
London
Subject (Name): White's Club (London, England)
Subject (Topic): Clubs
Men
Societies and clubs
Playing cards
Coats of arms
Subjects: White's Club (London, England)
Clubs > England > London
Men > England > London > Societies and clubs
Playing cards
Coats of arms
England > 1756
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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