Pedigree showing descent of Lord and Lady Pomfret from King Edward I, circa 1750

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15948822

Description

Title
Pedigree showing descent of Lord and Lady Pomfret from King Edward I, circa 1750
Creator
Pomfret, Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys Fermor, Countess of, 1700?-1761
Abstract

Manuscript on vellum, in a single hand, of 21 elaborately illuminated pages, each with a unique decorative boarder, illustrating the ancestry of Lady Henrietta Pomfret and Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl Pomfret as descended from King Edward I. The genealogy appears on each recto; on the facing-page verso is painted a sprouting pineapple plant decorated with coats of arms. On the first page, opposite a portrait of Edward I, are letters illuminated with gold leaf

Description
In English.
Note, in 19th century hand, pasted on front flyleaf: From Horace Walpole's letters to Sir Hor. Mann, Sept. 1st, 1750, "I have seen one [a pedigree] infinitely richer and better done, it is for my Lady Pomfret. She and my Lord both descend from King Edward I by his two Queens. The Pedigree is painted in a book; instead of a vulgar genealogical tree, she has devised a pine-apple plant, sprouting out of a basket on which is King Edward's head; on the leaves are all the intermediate arms." v. 2, p. 222. 1857 ed.
Binding: full calf with marble endpapers; elaborately tooled in gilt with the initials "HP" tooled on front cover; new spine.
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Provenance
Sold by Michael Tomkinson July 6 to D. of Q. [?] Purchased from Davis & Orioli, 1925.
Extent
1 v. ([11] leaves) : 31 cm.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Quarto 498 P77 Ms.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Genealogy
Genealogies (histories)
Escutcheons (Heraldry)
Illuminated manuscripts
Material
21 ill. ;
Resource Type
unspecified
Subject (Geographic)
England
Subject (Name)
Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307
Pomfret, Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys Fermor, Countess of, 1700?-1761.
Pomfret, Thomas Fermor, Earl 1698-1753.
Subject (Topic)
Family
Subjects
Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307 > Family
Pomfret, Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys Fermor, Countess of, 1700?-1761
Pomfret, Thomas Fermor, Earl 1698-1753
England > Genealogy
Pomfret family > Ownership
Tomkinson, Michael > Ownership

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Rights
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Citation
Pedigree Showing Descent of Lord and Lady Pomfret. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
1736783
Object ID (OID)
15948822

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