拍品 150
150
ARMORIAL BEARINGS, GILLING CASTLE. An album containing a collection of 59 pen-and-ink and watercolour designs, each approximately 250 x 320mm., with calligraphic title reading: "Armorial Bearings in ye Elizabethan Room, Gilling Castle," title within elaborate illuminated border, undated but early 19th century, title and designs all mounted one to a leaf on later 19th-century buff paper and bound in purple morocco gilt (275 x 524mm.), covers decorated with a gilt-ruled interlacing geometric design (extremities rubbed), g.e.

细节
ARMORIAL BEARINGS, GILLING CASTLE. An album containing a collection of 59 pen-and-ink and watercolour designs, each approximately 250 x 320mm., with calligraphic title reading: "Armorial Bearings in ye Elizabethan Room, Gilling Castle," title within elaborate illuminated border, undated but early 19th century, title and designs all mounted one to a leaf on later 19th-century buff paper and bound in purple morocco gilt (275 x 524mm.), covers decorated with a gilt-ruled interlacing geometric design (extremities rubbed), g.e.
来源
Cholmeley, Brandsby (armorial bookplate); "This book was given to Hugh C. Fairfax-Cholmeley by the Hon. Mrs A. Fraser" (20th-century inscription)

拍品专文

These finely-executed heraldic drawings are copied from the original Elizabethan painted armorial bearings which adorn the walls of the Great Chamber of Gilling Castle in the North Riding of Yorkshire, one of the finest examples of its kind in the country. The Castle's present use is as Prep School for nearby Ampleforth.

The drawings themselves fall into two distinct styles. The first set of 37 depict the highly-ornamented coats-of-arms of families associated with the Castle, most notably the Fairfaxs and Stapletones. The second set of 22 are copied from the more picturesque decorations to the chamber's painted frieze. These take the form of a series of stylised trees, each of which bears the name of a Yorkshire wapentake beneath. Set amongst the branches are 447 shields of arms of the resident gentry with a manuscript key in an early 19th-century hand laid down opposite each drawing. Real and mythological beasts, including wild boar, lions, unicorns and dragons, sport beneath each tree amongst colourful and exotic flora.