1-149-927 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Banner of the arms of England and France, quartered, c1445, (1843). Design after a manuscript page in The Shrewsbury Book. The French motto appears as Dieu est mon droit (God is my right), instead of the more usual Dieu et mon droit (God and my right). The animal may be a talbot hound (a type of medieval hunting dog), a reference to John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury who commissioned the Shrewsbury Book. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).