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coats of arms

So much for goats, or, cute creatures in coats of arms
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So much for goats, or, cute creatures in coats of arms

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Heather Wolfe

John Guillim’s partial manuscript draft of A Display of Heraldry (ca. 1610) was featured in our recently closed exhibition, “Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History in Shakespeare’s England.” We showed an opening depicting “Fishes skynned” and “Crusted fishes” and compared…