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Coat of arms Lord Southwell 18th century

Engraving of the coat of arms of Southwell, Lord Southwell, item 111 in an 18th-century publication. Text on this engraving, including motto, reads: 111 Southwell, Lord Southwell NEC MALE NOTUS EQUES (Not an unknown knight; A knight not badly known). Thomas George Southwell (1721 - 1780). The title Viscount Southwell, of Castle Mattress in the County of Limerick, was created in 1776 for Thomas Southwell, 3rd Baron Southwell.Source: The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom, with engravings of their paternal coats of arms by John Lodge, Deputy Keeper of the Records in Birmingham Tower. Published 1789

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Coat of Arms Calvert Lord Baltimore 18th century

Engraving of the Coat of Arms Calvert Lord Baltimore, item 104 of an 18th-century publication.Text on this engraving, including motto, reads: 104. Calvert, Lord Baltimore. FATTI MASGHII, PAROLE FEMINE (Deeds are masculine, words are feminine). Baltimore is in County Longford, Ireland. Frederick Calvert, 6th Lord Baltimore, was born in 1731. Cecelius Calvert, his great-great-grandfather, is sometimes called the founder of Maryland, USA. Source: The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom, with engravings of their paternal coats of arms by John Lodge, Deputy Keeper of the Records in Birmingham Tower. Published 1789

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Under the Cherry Tree

Under the Cherry Tree (1884). Lavery, Sir John 1856-1941. Born in Belfast, Lavery began his artistic training in Glasgow. During the early 1880s he studied in Paris and made visits to the artists? colony at Grez-sur-Loing, near Fontainebleau. At Grez Lavery was one of many young artists to set up their easels in the fields around the picturesque village and work en plein-air, a term used to describe painting in the open air. Under the Cherry Tree is larger and more ambitious than any Lavery had previously attempted. It is a youthful masterwork, heavily influenced by Bastien-Lepage and was intended to display the painterly techniques he had recently acquired through study in France. The composition of Under the Cherry Tree is divided into three distinct areas and Lavery employed a different technique in the painting of each. Date: 1884

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