Armorial Bearings of the A'Court of Heytesbury Family
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1800 - 1829
Materials
Watercolour, bodycolour, ink, paper.
Measurements
143 x 114 mm
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732610.20
Summary
Painting, watercolour and bodycolour and ink on paper, armorial bearings of A'Court of Heytesbury family, early 19th century. The painting on front shows an eagle (black/gold/blue) on an escutcheon and a helm of an eagle, on the reverse, handwritten, A'Court of Heytesbury. Arms - Per fess in Chief Or an Eagle displayed Sable beak and legs Gules on the Breast two Chevronels Argent the base paly of Six Erminois and Azure. Crest - An Eagle as in the Arms on the breast two Chevronels Or in the beck a Lily proper. Also inscribed on the reverse, probably in the hand of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS, Heytesbury Hund[re]d.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust along with Stourhead House, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.