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Handbook of heraldry : with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss. : rules for the appointment of liveries, &c (1882)

Cussans, John Edwin, 1837-1899 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 307

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chanical processes to be adopted can be pointed out:manipulative skill must be acquired by practice; but noamount of instruction can impart true artistic feeling. Itis a generally received opinion that Heraldry affords butlittle scope for artistic talent : this, however, is far frombeing the case;… … DRAWING AND EMBLAZONING. 299 compare some of the beautiful specimens of the MediaevalAges, with others of the Seventeenth and EighteenthCenturies. It does not follow, because a person is a good artist,in the common acceptation of the term, that he would there-fore be a good emblazoner. The armorist…

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