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Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Heraldic Exhibition, Burlington House, 1894 IN May, I862, the Society of Antiquaries had an Heraldic Exhibition in its Old rooms at Somerset House, which was in every way a success. After so long a lapse of time it was thought desirable in I894 to repeat the experiment, and a Special Committee was appointed by the Council to arrange it. It was at first contemplated to have a general Exhibition of Heraldry, but the number of exhibits from England alone seemed to promise to be so numerous, considering the limited room available for the Exhibition, that it was eventually decided to restrict the exhibits to England, and to leave Foreign Heraldry for some future occasion. The Exhibition was opened at the evening meeting of May 3ist, and closed on June 13th. A general desire was expressed that some permanent record should be made of the Exhibition, which had been considered a very successful one, as had been done in the case of the Heraldic Exhibition held at Edinburgh in 1891. It was therefore decided by the Committee that a similar Illustrated Catalogue should be prepared under their guidance, with the assistance of Mr. W. H. St. John Hope. The Council, however, considered that it would not be convenient that the book should form part of the regular publications of the Society, but should be published by the Committee if they should obtain a sufficient number of subscribers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
"This catalogue is the first comprehensive study of the 328 objects that make up this little-known area of the Royal Collection. The ancient gems and intaglios have been catalogued by John Boardman, and although they are few in number, they include the magnificent Claudius cameo that was once in the collection of Charles I. The later, post-Renaissance pieces have been studied by Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti, and these include the great Tudor portrait cameos, a superb series of Italian sixteenth-century portrait cameos of North Italian 'Beauties', the group of exquisite eighteenth-century Italian carnelians bought by George III from Consul Smith in 1762 and a fine selection of Garter badges, several bearing the signature of the gem-engravers Marchant and Burch." "Close examination by gemmologists has produced an accurate technical analysis of all the stones and settings, and newly commissioned photographs bring out the distinctive features of each piece. Casts are illustrated wherever possible, and close-tip images of signatures, inscriptions and hallmarks support the detailed descriptions in the text. Research into the collection has resulted in new information concerning the mounts of many of the gems, and this is summarised in an illustrated appendix. Also published in full, and for the first time, is the collection of intaglios once owned by Henry, Prince of Wales, which was recorded in a series of wax impressions made by Elias Ashmole at the request of Charles II in June 1660."--BOOK JACKET.