Volume 2, opposite page lx. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in
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still image
Abstract:
Portrait of the English antiquarian Ralph Bigland, three quarter length, directed to right, looking over his shoulder to left; wearing official robes decorated in armorial emblems, a short wig, and the chain of office; his right hand gloved and grasping the hilt of his sword, his left hand resting upon papers with a coat of arms visible on the uppermost sheet
Description:
Title and date from contemporary note in brown ink on verso., Unsigned; artist not identified., Probably drawn after a painting by Richard Brompton; cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.5322., and Mounted opposite page lx of 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.
