Heraldry as art : an account of its development and practice, chiefly in England (1907)
Eve, George W., d. 1914 · London : B.T. Batsford ; New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 106
a gull hovers and backs in the air; but itsdecorative power and its adaptability to a shield shapeare so striking as to suggest its invention for the purpose.The same necessity for clear definition that influencedthe drawing of the mediaeval lion caused the eagle to betreated in a somewhat similar… … Fig. 105.—Shield of the Emperor from the Tomb of Prince Edmundat Kings Langley. Early Fifteenth Century. and similarly adaptable to decorative distribution on asurface. A good example of the heraldic eagle of the Middle HERALDIC BIRDS AND OTHER FIGURES 91 Ages is on one of the shields that decorate…
Heraldry
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