Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 272
rm being derived from the Latin(cufis) word for skin or hide, which covered theancient shields : but with the use of fire-armsshields declined, until the small steel buckler forthe short-sword became its last working repre-sentative. The character and the art of heraldic devicesvaries very much… … SICILIAN SILK TISSUE. TWELFTH CENTURY (sOUTHKENSINGTON MUSEUM). THE SYMBOLIC INFLUENCE with the coach-painters heraldry of the presentto reahze the great chancre in feeling. Comparea Plantagenet lion with a Victorian one, a mediaevalgriffin with a nineteenth century specimen. The Gothic heraldic…
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