Armorial Bearings of the Howe of Wishford Family
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1800 - 1829
Materials
Watercolour, bodycolour, ink and paper.
Measurements
146 x 115 mm
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732610.6
Summary
Painting, watercolour and bodycolour and ink on paper, armorial bearings of the Howe of Wishford family, early 19th century. The painting on front shows three wolves heads (black/gold) on an escutcheon and a helm of an arm in armour holding a scymitar piercing a boar's head, on the reverse, handwritten, Howe of Wishford. Arms. Or a Fess betweem three Wolves Heads couped Sable a Crescent for filial difference. Crest. An Arm erased below the elbow fessways in Armour the hand grasping a Scymitar erect proper pomel and hilt Or the blade transpiercing a Boar's head Sable.
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.