[Arms of Anthony Wydville, Earl Rivers] [art original].

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Title: [Arms of Anthony Wydville, Earl Rivers] [art original].
Alternative Title: Arms of Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: The arms of Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers; the shield has six quarterings, leopard and merman(?) supporters, and is surmounted by a man holding a curved sword
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist not identified.
Date of production based on death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted.
Four lines of biographical information in brown ink below image, in a contemporary hand.
Mounted opposite page 70 in volume 1, part 1 of Richard Bull's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England. London : R. and J. Dodsley [etc.], 1759 [i.e. 1758].
On a wash-line mount.
Provenance: Bought from Dobell by W.S. Lewis, 1928?
Extent: 1 drawing : image 13 x 11 cm, on sheet 17.3 x 16 cm, mounted to 49 x 36 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 24 10 Copy 2
Collection Title: Volume 1, part 1, opposite page 70. Catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: London : R. and J. Dodsley [etc.], 1759 [i.e. 1758].

Material: pen and ink over pencil ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Rivers, Anthony Woodville, Earl, 1442?-1483.
Subject (Topic): Coats of arms
Subjects: Rivers, Anthony Woodville, Earl, 1442?-1483
Coats of arms
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Arms of Anthony Wydville, Earl Rivers. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.