Armorial Bearings of the Biggs of Stockton Family
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1800 - 1829
Materials
watercolour, bodycolour, ink and paper
Measurements
145 x 113 mm
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732610.7
Summary
Painting, watercolour and bodycolour and ink on paper, armorial bearings of the Biggs of Stockton family, early 19th century. The painting on front shows a lion passant (red) on azure and ermine on an escutcheon, on the reverse, handwritten, BIGGS of Stockton (olim London). Arms. Per pale Ermine and Azure a Lion passant Gules ducally crowned Or with a bordure engrailed of the third charged with eight fleurs de lis of the fourth.
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.