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Identifier: treatiseoncarria01felt (find matches)
Title: A treatise on carriages : comprehending coaches, chariots, phaetons, curricles, whiskies, &c. : together with their proper harness, in which the fair prices of every article are accurately stated
Year: 1796 (1790s)
Authors: Felton, William Debrett, John, d. 1822
Subjects: Carriage and wagon making Carriages and carts
Publisher: London : Printed for and sold by the author, and by J. Debrett ... (and 5 others)
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ility have fupportersand coronets of various patterns. A minute de-fcription of the rules of Herald Painting wouldbe unneccirary here ; a reference to EdmonjonsBeck oj Heraldry will give every information onthat fubjeft. Plate xix. and the defcriptionthereof, will give fuch information as is common-ly required. The ornament painting is merely to beautifythe carriage, which it does materially, when it iswell executed ; but, when otherwife, it hurts theappearance of it. This depends on the capacityof the artift : the pannels had better be entirelyplain, than daubed, as many of them are, in imi-tation of painting ; and in particular that of He-raldry, which requires fome merit to execute itproperly. PLATE XIX. Fig. 1. The arms of a baichelor in fhield, withthe creft on a wreath. Fig. 2. The arms of a maiden lady, in the pro-per-fliaped lozenge they fhould be borne. Fig. 3. The arms of the fame, empalled withthofe of the gentlemans, fliewing how they areborne when united by marriage. Fig.
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m^u m PAINTING, VARNISHING, Sec. 197 Fig. 4. The manner in which the ladys armsare to be borne, if the lady is an heirels, whichis in a feparate fhield, within the centre of thehufbands, called a fcutcheon of pretence. Fig. 5. The form of the fhield, called a wi-dows lozenge, in which either of the arms are tobe placed, if the hufband dies. Fig. 6. Two ovals, in which the arms are fe-parately placed, but not if the lady is an heirefs;the arms muft then be borne in a fhield, or oval,with the ladys arms in the middle : there is norule for any form of fhield, whether round, oval,or cornered, makes no difference for a gentle-mans arms; but, for a ladys, the form of a lo-zenge is the rijle, except when married and em-rpalled. Fig. 7. The fcroU ornament, or a foliagemantle, which furrounds the arms or creft, in-ftead of the curtain mantles. Within the arms isthe bloody hand which diftinguifhes a baronet. Fig. 8. The mantle, of which there are variousfhapesj is introduced only as an ornament

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