White's Club coat of arms

Description

Title: White's Club coat of arms
Alternative Title: Cogit amor nummi
Creator: Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
Published / Created: [1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: 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).
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.
Provenance: This print is possibly one of a collection dispersed at the Strawberry Hill Sale, 1842, day viii, lot 154. Chewton Collection of Lord Waldegrave, to W.S. Lewis, 1948.
Extent: 1 print : image 11.2 x 13.0 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Engravings England 1756
Material: engraving ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
London
Subject (Name): White's Club (London, England)
Subject (Topic): Clubs
Men
Societies and clubs
Playing cards
Coats of arms
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
White's Club (London, England)
Clubs > England > London
Men > England > London > Societies and clubs
Clubs
Men > Societies and clubs
England > London
Playing cards
Coats of arms
England > 1756

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