[Seals] [art original].

Description

Title: [Seals] [art original].
Alternative Title: Ego et rex meus
Creator: Tovey, J., active 1793-1801, artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1793]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of two seals, one above the other. The top seal shows Henry VIII on a throne holding the globus cruciger in his left hand and a dagger in his right hand; he is flanked by two armorial shields surmounted by crowns, and Latin text runs along the circular border of the seal. The bottom a seal of the Archbishop of York with Saint Peter holding a key and Saint Paul with a sword under the arches of a building and with Cardinal Thomas Wosley's coat of arms (in reverse) below identified by text in Latin encircling the border
Description: Title devised by curator; alternative title written in ink.
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 398.3 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 : sheet 23.6 x 16 cm
Language: Latin

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 142 793D
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 398.3. 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 laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
Subject (Topic): Seals (Insignia)
Coats of arms
Kings
Clergy
Subjects: Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547
Seals (Insignia)
Coats of arms
Kings
Clergy
British > 18th century
Dallaway, James, 1763-1834 > Ownership
Fleming, Lindsay > Ownership

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Citation: J. Tovey, Seals. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.