Depiction of a multi-quartered shield with sixteen coats of arms, surmounted by a crown and with the Walpole motto "Fari quae sentiat" written in a banner beneath
Alternative Title:
Horace Walpole's pedigree
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., and Date of production based on acquisition date.
Title from note in previous owner's hand., Date from British Museum online catalogue., Taken from a brass matrix formerly owned by Horace Walpole., Inscription: s: ric :cletherowe : admiralli: occidentalis: anglie., British Museum 'Cat. of Seals', no. 1042; 'Archaeologia', xlvi, p. 369., and British Museum online catalogue; registration no. 1858,0629.1.
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).
Alternative Title:
Cog it amor nummi
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., and Mounted to 16.5 x 23 cm. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London
Subject (Name):
White's Club (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Men, Societies and clubs, Playing cards, and Coats of arms
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).
Alternative Title:
Cog it amor nummi
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., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London
Subject (Name):
White's Club (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Men, Societies and clubs, Playing cards, and Coats of arms
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).
Alternative Title:
Cog it amor nummi
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 66 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; sheet 10.3 x 10.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London
Subject (Name):
White's Club (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Men, Societies and clubs, Playing cards, and Coats of arms
Cordiform projection., From: "Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber geographiae cum tabulis...", From: Clavdii Ptholemaei Alexandrini Liber geographiae cvm tabvlis...1511., Lanman collection; dgvmp2008., Map is printed in two colors, red and black., Outer map border shows decorative windheads and zodiacal signs., The author's name is often given as Bernard Sylvanus (see Shirley entry 32, plate 35) or Bernardus Sylvanus., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
Per Iacobum Pentium de Leucho,
Subject (Name):
Pencio, Jacopo, active 1486-1530 and Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Geographia
