Cognizances [art original].

Description

Title: Cognizances [art original].
Creator: Tovey, J., active 1793-1801, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1793]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of six cognizances arranged in two columns, each associated with a name of an English king below
Description: Title written in ink above image.
Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound.
Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound.
Mounted on page 382.1 in volume 2 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 23.2 x 18 cm, on sheet 24.6 x 19 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 142 793D
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 382.1. 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 wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Heraldry
Emblems
Subjects: Heraldry
Emblems
British > 18th century
Dallaway, James, 1763-1834 > Ownership
Fleming, Lindsay > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: J. Tovey, Cognizances. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.