Armorial bearings of the Coker of Hill Deverell Family
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1800 - 1829
Materials
Watercolour, bodycolour, ink and paper.
Measurements
144 x 109 mm
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732610.25
Summary
Painting, watercolour and bodycolour and ink on paper, armorial bearings of the Coker of Hill Deverell family, early 19th century. The painting on front shows three leopard faces on a red diagonal on an escutcheon and a helm of a Moor's head, on the reverse, handwritten, Coker of Hill Deverell. Arms - Argent on a Bend Gules three Leopards faces Or a Bordure engrailed Sable a Mullet Gules for filial difference. Crest - A Moor's head proper wreathed about the temples Argent and Gules. Inscribed on the reverse, probably in the hand of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS, Hundred of Heytesbury.
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.