A few images from the wonderful a mid-17th Century illustrated manuscript showing the Middleton/Myddleton linage at Chirk Castle.
It doesn't have any bearing on my WoRs
project really but I loved both the range and vitality of the devices
and more so the lack of uniformity in the highly detailed, hand drawn
devices. Even in the same image, no two representations are the same,
and there is a clear desire to make sure the devices fit the space,
rather than are a standard size.
Food for thought when painting my heraldry. More of which soon.
