A type of trew nobility, or, ye armes of a Xptian [sic] emblazoned [print] / exornavit G. Slatyer ; J.v.L. fecit.

Accession number: 
PML 145850.88
Author: 
Langeren, Jacob van, engraver.
Published: 
[London : s.n., ca. 1635
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 242 x 159 mm; plate mark: 248 x 162 mm; sheet: 266 x 182 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Title from item, date suggested by ESTC
Entirely engraved by Jacob van Langeren after a design by William Slatyer.
With six lines of engraved verse at foot of design, the first line reading: Though our Earthes Gentry Vaunt her self So Good ...
Mounted as item 88 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

An emblematic engraving featuring a coat of arms with Christian motifs, flanked by the pillars Fortitudine and Constantia.

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