Standards and cognizances [art original].

Description

Title: Standards and cognizances [art original].
Creator: Tovey, J., active 1793-1801, artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1793]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of four rectangular heraldic flags and two cognizances, each labeled below with the name of an English king. The four standards belong to Henry IV, Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III; the two cognizances belong to Henry VII
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 382.3 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 23.5 x 18 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 142 793D
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 382.3. 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
Flags
Subjects: Heraldry
Emblems
Flags
British > 18th century
Dallaway, James, 1763-1834 > Ownership
Fleming, Lindsay > Ownership

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