Aquila Hapsburghiensis [graphic].

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Title: Aquila Hapsburghiensis [graphic].
Contributor: Townshend, George Townshend, Marquess, 1755-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [publish'd 27th May 1780]
Publication Place: England?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Satirical armorial ridiculing Lord Denbigh's claim to descend from the Habsburg family
Description: Title etched below image.
Artist identified as 'Lord de Ferrars' in the British Museum catalogue.
Publication date from contemporary manuscript note in lower left margin: Publish'd 27th May 1780.
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.
Dedication etched at bottom of plate: Humbly dedicated to Garter King at Arms and all other the officers of the College of Arms, London.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 30.3 x 22.5 cm, on sheet 33.2 x 25.2 cm.
Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 8 of 12.
Provenance: From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : 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

Genre: Caricatures England 1780
Satires (Visual works) England 1780
Etchings England 1780
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Denbigh, Basil Fielding, Earl of, 1719-1800.
Subject (Topic): Coats of arms
Eagles
Subjects: Denbigh, Basil Fielding, Earl of, 1719-1800
Coats of arms
Eagles
England > 1780
18th century
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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