The combate in Smithfield betwixt Iohn de Astley and Sr. Philip Boyle, 30 Ian. an. 1441 [art original].

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Title: The combate in Smithfield betwixt Iohn de Astley and Sr. Philip Boyle, 30 Ian. an. 1441 [art original].
Alternative Title: Combat in Smithfield betwixt John de Astley and Sir Philip Boyle, 30 Jan. an. 1441
Creator: Tovey, J., active 1793-1801, artist
Contributor: Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1793]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: At a tournament with stands of spectators on two sides, and the royal stands with King Henry VI in the center flanked by his court on either side, in Smithfield, London; two knights battle on foot
Description: Title written in ink within banner at top of image.
Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound.
Copied from a print by Wenceslaus Hollar; cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.4121.
Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound.
Mounted on page 64.2 in volume 1 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Lindsay Fleming, Aldwick Grange, Bognor Regis, Sussex. Sold at Sotheby's (Lindsay Fleming sale), lot 144, to Pickering & Chatto for W.S. Lewis, 23 March 1972.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 14 x 22 cm, on sheet 15.6 x 23 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 142 793D
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 64.2. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Collection / Other Creator: Dallaway, James, 1763-1834.
Collection Date: Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.

Genre: Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Fighting
Knights
Subjects: Fighting
Knights
British > 18th century
Dallaway, James, 1763-1834 > Ownership
Fleming, Lindsay > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: J. Tovey, The Combate in Smithfield betwixt Iohn de Astley and Sr. Philip Boyle, 30 Ian. an. 1441. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.