3-021-598 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Meyrick Collection at South Kensington: archer's shield, or 'pavois', Edward IV., 1869. A specimen from '...the collection of ancient arms and armour formed by Sir Samuel Meyrick, of Goodrich Court, Herefordshire, which is now to be seen in the Great Exhibition Palace at South Kensington...an English archer's pavois, or painted shield, of the time of Edward III., which may well have been carried by some stout yeoman on the battle-fields of Creçy and Poitiers.' From "Illustrated London News", 1869.