Aquila Hapsburghiensis [graphic].

Description

Title: Aquila Hapsburghiensis [graphic].
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Denbigh, Basil Fielding,--Earl of,--1719-1800.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquess, 1755-1811, artist.
Copyright Date: [publish'd 27th May 1780]
Publication Place: [London]
Abstract: Satirical armorial ridiculing Lord Denbigh's claim to descend from the Habsburg family.
Description: Artist identified as 'Lord de Ferrars' in the British Museum catalogue.
Dedication etched at bottom of plate: Humbly dedicated to Garter King at Arms and all other the officers of the College of Arms, London.
Four lines of text in Latin below title: Monstrum, horrendum informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum. Quale portentum neque militaris, aaunia in latis alit esculetis, nee jubae tellus generat, &c. &c.
Publication date from contemporary manuscript note in lower left margin: Publish'd 27th May 1780.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching ; plate mark 30.4 x 22.4 cm, on sheet 36 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.--CtY-LW
Caricatures--England--1780.
Etchings--England--1780.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1780.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Denbigh, Basil Fielding,--Earl of,--1719-1800.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquess, 1755-1811, artist.
Subject (Topic): Coats of arms.
Eagles.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5763