The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Indian Shield

Images supplied courtesy of the Burton Constable Foundation. [Photograph].
Click image for full-size. Collector (major)Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) In Print: Material from the 'Museum' of Ralph Thoresby (1659-1725) Preserved at Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire, 34 Description:Described in Musaeum Thoresbianum as: ‘A small Indian Target: this is not two Foot in
Diameter, painted with green and yellow
Branches upon a Scarlet Ground; in the Center is a
Scochean with a Sort of Harpy, or perhaps Lion
passant gardant Or, in a Field of Vert.’
Burton Constable label: ‘An Indian Target. / Thoresby P. 473. / Lion
Passant / Gardant.’