Satirical armorial ridiculing Lord Denbigh's claim to descend from the Habsburg family
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as 'Lord de Ferrars' in the British Museum catalogue., Publication date from contemporary manuscript note in lower left margin: Publish'd 27th May 1780., Four lines of text in Latin below title: Monstrum, horrendum informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum. Quale portentum neque militaris, aaunia in latis alit esculetis, nee jubae tellus generat, &c. &c., and Dedication etched at bottom of plate: Humbly dedicated to Garter King at Arms and all other the officers of the College of Arms, London.