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 36
ted in thedisuse of the shield altogether. By the end of the thir-teenth century heraldry had become general, and thetriangular shields bore coats of arms which showed intheir composition the influence of the shape that containedthem. The fact that a single lion was depicted as ram-pant rather than… … Fig. 7. Fig. 8. Fig. 9. ence in the designs of the textiles and in other worksof Eastern origin. Until the beginning of the fourteenth century thecurves which describe the sides of the shield commencedquite at the top, but soon afterwards (the shape becomingrather narrower in proportion to the…
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