19th Jul, 2023 13:45

Summer Country House & Fine Interiors Auction

 
  Lot 656
 

A Manuscript album of Heraldry by Clarenceux King of Arms; and a watercolour and a pencil sketch

Sold for £3,800


Lot details

Camden (William) b. 1597- d. 1623, a manuscript album, gilt armorial calf, folio-bound, containing hand-drawn and coloured illustrations of the heraldic arms of the nobility of England from the Norman Conquest to the 17th Century, inscribed on the inside cover "The Arms of The Duke's, Earls and Barrons or Lords of England with the time of their first Creation and Decents since the Conquest Collected by Clarencieux Herald of Arms, about 1606". N.B. William Camden the English antiquarian, topographer and herald best known as the Author of Britannia and the Annales or History of Queen Elizabeth's Reign was appointed by the College of Arms as Clarenceux King of Arms in 1597; this lot sold to include a watercolour and a pencil sketch both depicting a country house presumably associated with the album.

 

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Auction: Summer Country House & Fine Interiors Auction, 19th Jul, 2023

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