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Fictitious & symbolic creatures in art with special reference to their use in British heraldry /

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Fictitious & symbolic creatures in art with special reference to their use in British heraldry /

[Book]

by John Vinycomb.

[Whitefish, MT] :

Kessinger Pub.,

[200-?]

xvi, 276 pages :

illustrations, coats of arms ;

23 cm.

Kessinger Publishing's rare reprints

Reprint. Originally published: London : Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1906.

Fictitious creatures of the sea -- Poseidon or Neptune -- Merman or Triton -- The mermaid or siren -- The sirens of classic mythology -- The dolphin of legend and of heraldry -- The dauphin of France -- The heraldic dolphin -- The sea horse -- Sea lion -- Sea dog.

Notes on animated beings in heraldic art -- The symbolism of attitude or position -- The heraldic spirit-effective decorative quality essential in heraldry -- Celestial beings -- Angels -- Mistaken modern conception of angels -- Medieval art treatment of angels -- Cherubim and Seraphim in heraldry -- The Cherubim and Seraphim of scripture -- Emblems of the four evangelists -- Chimerical creatures of the dragon and serpent kind -- The dragon -- The dragon in Christian art -- The dragon in the Royal heraldry of Britain -- The crocodile as the prototype of the dragon -- The heraldic dragon -- The Hydra -- The wyvern -- The Chimera -- The lion-dragon -- The gorgon -- The cockatrice -- Basilisk, or amphysian cockatrice -- The mythical serpent -- The scorpion -- Other Chimerical creatures and heraldic beasts -- The unicorn -- Medieval conception of the unicorn -- The horn of the unicorn -- The Pegasus -- Sagittarry, centaur, Sagittarius, centaurus, hippocentaur -- Griffin or gryphon -- The male griffin -- Other varieties of the griffin -- The opinicus, or epimacus -- The sphinx -- The phoenix bird of the sun -- The harpy -- The heraldic pelican -- The martlet -- The alerion -- The liver (cormorant) -- The heraldic tigre or tiger -- the royal tiger -- Leopard, or panther, felis pardus, lybbarde -- The panther ʺincensedʺ The lynx -- Cat-a-mountain -- tiger cat or wild cat -- The salamander -- Heraldic antelope -- The heraldic ibex -- Bagwyn -- The camelopard, camel-leopard -- Musimon, Tityrus -- The enfield -- Mantiger, Montegre or manticora satyral -- Lamia or Emipusa -- Baphomet -- Apres -- Stelliones.

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Fictitious and symbolic creatures in art with special reference to their use in British heraldry

Animals, Mythical.

Heraldry-- Great Britain.

Symbolism in art.

Animals, Mythical.

Heraldry.

Symbolism in art.

Great Britain.

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Vinycomb, John.

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