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George Cruikshank's The Dandies Coat of Arms (1819)...a rather unusual contribution to #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi...enjoy!! #Dandies #Heraldry (image: Met Museum)
@AndrewBrunatti Metternich was hardly a bystander though! He had been quietly helping Lord Stewart for some time!!
Death of Richard III at Bosworth #otd 22 August 1485. The king's body was reportedly rescued from the battlefield by Blanc Sanglier Pursuivant (image: wiki)
Sir Henry Hardinge was Wellington's second in his duel with Lord Winchilsea. Hardinge was also second to his brother in law, Lord Londonderry, who fought a duel with Cornet Battier, in 1824. The satirists had a field day (image: BM) @mcribbHistory
@Napoleonic_Imp @LandOfHistory @mcribbHistory @latelordchatham @JasonLHughes @LondonSE4 @KaraDiDomizio @meherbelin @aquestingvole @LynnBry29527024 Lord Stewart. And has to be a tom cat!!
Who will win #NelsonvsWellington? My money is on the duke, but after all the nasty things he said about my chap, Stewart...hmmm, should we cheer on the admiral?!! (Image: NPG) @mcribbHistory @kateejamieson @LandOfHistory
Arms of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands for #WorldPenguinDay #HeraldicPenguins
@GeorgianLords @Hillary_Burlock @latelordchatham @EHChalus The blue ribbon request concerned James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, who makes appearances in my first book. Arrogant and unpopular, I rather like him!! (Image: NPG)
Social advancement 1810s style. Edmund Phelps, previously 'engaged as a Public Singer at Vauxhall' married the Countess of Antrim in 1817, and 'obtained his Majesty's Letters Patent authorizing him to take the name & bear the Arms of Macdonnell.' #SingForYourSupper
Brook Watson's teenage encounter with the shark was the subject of John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark #NotJaws #AwesomeSharks (image: National Gallery of Art, Washington)