Heraldry and floral forms as used in decoration; (1922)
Cole, Herbert · London & Toronto, J. M. Dent & Sons ltd.; New York, E. P. Dutton & co. · leaf 96
beautifully designed tocompliment each other, and the little coats of arms are most lovinglytreated and carefully drawn. At the top of the larger cartouche afigure of Saint Sebastian, the martyr, pierced by arrows, stands tiedto a tree trunk. Supporters, represented by a savage man andwoman, refer… … HERALDRY the days of archery, and was practised long after the introduction offirearms. Sir Walter Scott mentions its survival in Scotland in hisown time, and he gives a short description of the game in his novelOld Mortality. The passage quoted below is from the second chapterof that splendid…
Decoration and ornament · Heraldry · Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms
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