Heraldry as art: An account of its development and practice, chiefly in England

The Achievement--Its Composition and Proportions--Modifications of Proportion--The Design of the Heraldic Group--Essential Qualities--Variability of Grouping--The Shield--Its St...

The Helm--Its Structure--Ceremonial Use--Development as Armour--Helmets and their Mechanism--Tourney Helms--The Crest--How Made and Fixed--Examples of Actual Crests--Influence o...

Supporters--Derivation from Badges--Special Conditions of their Pose--Non-Heraldic Supporters--Amorini--Angels--Symbolic Figures--The Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire--And of Prus...

Illumination--Practical Directions--Methods of the Early Illuminators--Colour Treatment--Heraldry in Enamel--Champlevé Enamel, Personal and Monumental--The Cloak Clasp of Queen...

Badges at Blois--And at Hampton Court--Sculpture--Sgraffito--Gesso as a Material for Heraldic Relief--Methods of Preparation--A Series of Shields in Painted Gesso--Poker Work--S...

Surcoats--Bardings--Embroidered Linen--Banners--Appliqué Work--Embroidered Badges--The Toison d’or of Charles the Bold--Standards--The Proportions of Banners from Early Times--T...

In dealing with heraldry from the artist’s point of view, as a decorative subject which offers interesting scope for technical effort, it will not be necessary to go overmuch in...

The armorial group, called an “Achievement” of Arms, principally consists of the shield and the crest, the latter supported on its helm, and accompanied by the mantling or lambr...

With the regular establishment of heraldry the need for a technical method of describing the various bearings at once made itself felt, and the system of Blazon was the result....

It has already been mentioned that the earliest heraldic lion, followed the Eastern examples with considerable fidelity, as may be seen by comparing the lions of the early MSS.,...

In the same way that the lion asserted its pre-eminence among heraldic beasts the Eagle, the most powerful of birds of prey, was adopted as the symbol of victory from a time so...

The treatment of the helm and mantling is a matter of especial interest both as a significant part of an achievement of arms and as that part of it which affords a great amount...

The armorial shield, and, in a rather less degree, the crest, are in an especial sense essential parts of an heraldic achievement, and have always been considered fully represen...

The methods of painting heraldry have changed very little from those that were employed in the early MSS. In the unfinished Bible at Winchester Cathedral, of which the illuminat...

In its application to architectural decoration heraldry put forth some of its finest work as became one of the family of the “mother of the arts,” and it was in architecture too...

The romantic associations that embroidered heraldry call to mind, of fair fingers working the devices on battle flags and on knightly surcoats, render it a subject of the utmost...

ANNULET.--A simple ring, as in the mark of cadency of a fifth son, Fig. 295, p. 288. A ring in which a precious stone is mounted is called a gem-ring, and an interesting example...

In order to distinguish the various members of a family among themselves certain additions to the shield called marks of cadency are employed; and in the earliest days of the he...