Heraldic Gallery

Illustrated London News Accession of George VI, 1936 cover

Front cover of the Illustrated London News, Accession Number reporting on the abdication of King Edward VIII and the accession of his younger brother, Albert, Duke of York who became King George VI in December 1936. Cover features a picture of the new King together with Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) and a medieval style border decorated with royalist emblems and the royal standard. Date: 1936

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Men's costumes of the mid 15th century

Men's costumes of the mid 15th century. Charles the Bold, Karl I der KǬhne, wearing a fur-lined coat over puff sleeved doublet. From a miniature in the titlepage of Froissart's Chronicles. B shows an angel and knight in armour with heraldic shields, and C the crests of the Count of Nassau and the Wheel of Mainz taken from a prayer book in the castle library of Aschaffenburg. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C.R. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher

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Water-carriage with figure of Cupid hanging by one leg

A Wassermaschine or water-carriage with musicians in fishscale costumes and a sleeping Cupid hanging by one leg. The car is followed by two winged women in heraldic colours and a sign Dormiens Anima Cupidini. Part of the celebration of the birth of Freiderich, Duke of Wurttemberg. Taken from Delineation und Abbildung aller furstlichen Aufzug und Ritterspielen by Esaias von Hulsen, 1617. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages, Chez Collignon, Metz, 1810. Date:

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