BIB_ID
459620
Accession number
MA 176 E4
Creator
Silvester, Richard William, 1769 or 1770-1842, printmaker.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890. NNPM
Description
1 print : engraving ; sheet: 167 x 143 mm
Notes
Title from item.
Forms part of a collection of letters and prints related to the trial of Warren Hastings; possibly intended as a ticket of admission to the box of the royal family at Westminster Hall where the trial took place.
Print trimmed within plate mark and mounted on backing sheet 270 x 205 mm. NNPM
Forms part of a collection of letters and prints related to the trial of Warren Hastings; possibly intended as a ticket of admission to the box of the royal family at Westminster Hall where the trial took place.
Print trimmed within plate mark and mounted on backing sheet 270 x 205 mm. NNPM
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1890. NNPM
Summary
Coat of arms flanked by the figures of a monk or friar (at left) and a wildman (at right); surmounted by a crowned "Saracen's head" and an arm embowed with a laurel branch at left, and an arm embowed in armor holding a halberd. With motto: Animus non deficit aequus
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