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1. Pedigree showing descent of Lord and Lady Pomfret from King Edward I, circa 1750
- Creator:
- Pomfret, Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys Fermor, Countess of, 1700?-1761
- Call Number:
- Quarto 498 P77 Ms.
- Image Count:
- 40
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on vellum, in a single hand, of 21 elaborately illuminated pages, each with a unique decorative boarder, illustrating the ancestry of Lady Henrietta Pomfret and Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl Pomfret as descended from King Edward I. The genealogy appears on each recto; on the facing-page verso is painted a sprouting pineapple plant decorated with coats of arms. On the first page, opposite a portrait of Edward I, are letters illuminated with gold leaf
- Description:
- In English., Note, in 19th century hand, pasted on front flyleaf: From Horace Walpole's letters to Sir Hor. Mann, Sept. 1st, 1750, "I have seen one [a pedigree] infinitely richer and better done, it is for my Lady Pomfret. She and my Lord both descend from King Edward I by his two Queens. The Pedigree is painted in a book; instead of a vulgar genealogical tree, she has devised a pine-apple plant, sprouting out of a basket on which is King Edward's head; on the leaves are all the intermediate arms." v. 2, p. 222. 1857 ed., Binding: full calf with marble endpapers; elaborately tooled in gilt with the initials "HP" tooled on front cover; new spine., and For further information consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307, Pomfret, Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys Fermor, Countess of, 1700?-1761., and Pomfret, Thomas Fermor, Earl 1698-1753.
- Subject (Topic):
- Family
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Pedigree showing descent of Lord and Lady Pomfret from King Edward I, circa 1750
