[Arms with rainbow and caterpillars] [art original].

Description

Title: [Arms with rainbow and caterpillars] [art original].
Creator: Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1810]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Sketch of an armorial shield with three caterpillars, two at the top and one at the bottom. Running horizontally across the middle of the shield is a band with a human-faced sun at its center. To the right of the upper caterpillars is written "Catterpillars"; to the right of the band is written "Rainbow".
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; attribution to Thomas Kirgate from local catalog card.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
Drawn in lower left corner of page 42 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Thomas Kirgate, with his manuscript notes in the volume; probably lot 349 in Kirgate's sale. Later owned by William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave, with his armorial bookplate in the volume. Sold by Geoffrey Noel, 12th Earl Waldegrave, to W.S. Lewis, 1948.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 19 x 17 mm, on sheet 16.3 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Ink drawings British 19th century
Material: pen and ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Coats of arms
Caterpillars
Subjects: Coats of arms
Caterpillars
British > 19th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership
Waldegrave, William Frederick Waldegrave, Earl, 1851-1930 > Bookplate
Waldegrave, Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, Earl, 1905- > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Thomas Kirgate, Arms with Rainbow and Caterpillars. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.