[Seals] [art original].

Creator:

Tovey, J., active 1793, artist.

Copyright Date:

[ca. 1793]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : pen and ink on laid paper ; sheet 23.6 x 15.8 cm

Notes:

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.
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.
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.
Title devised by curator; alternative title written in ink.

Abstract:

Drawing depicting 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 seal shows two robed clergy within arched alcoves of a building, the one at left holding a key and the one at right holding a dagger; an armorial shield is seen below, and Latin text runs along the border of the seal.

Variant Titles:

Ego et rex meus

Topics:

Clergy.
Coats of arms.
Kings.
Seals (Insignia).

Topics:

Dallaway, James,--1763-1834--Ownership.
Fleming, Lindsay--Ownership.
Henry--VIII,--King of England,--1491-1547.

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Ink drawings--British--18th century.
Pen works--British--18th century.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Paintings & Drawings

Rights:

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Source Title:

Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.

Call Number:

Quarto 142 793D

Orbis Record:

13688617

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr36655

Citation:

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

OID:

16703580

PID:

digcoll:4679327