“Modern Painters,” vol. iii. Internet/Web, and HCI. Vol. After several days of unsuccessfully attempting to get Chris back, Jim asks Chris’s father for his assist within the matter during dad or mum visitation day. The above notes on heraldic remedy are largely adapted from the admirable works on Decorative Art, by Louis F. Day. In conclusion, having, so far as doable, given the raison d’être of each, and traced the life-historical past and characteristics of the various unusual and fantastic creatures in our symbolic menagerie, it solely stays to express the hope that the information contained in this quantity could also be discovered both interesting and helpful, as with out some such information there can be little or no clever understanding of the proper therapy of the varieties of these mythical and symbolic beings. Among the early heraldic representations, although a bit crude, are very characteristic and totally heraldic in treatment, though at the identical time very not like the true dolphin.
The Dolphin is usually, if not all the time, depicted in heraldry embowed, that’s, having its again enormously incurvated. The Dolphin seems in English heraldry as early because the center of the thirteenth century. This fabulous marine creature in heraldry is compounded of the fore quarters of a horse with webbed paws, and the hinder part of a fish or dolphin. In France the bearing of the dolphin was completely restricted to the Dauphin or heir to the throne of the kingdom. The heraldic dolphin, as, normally represented by trendy heralds, is an ornamental monstrosity bearing but slight resemblance to the natural form of this celebrated historic marine symbol; a nearer resemblance to the pure shape is decidedly preferable. The steeds of Neptune are favourite subjects in historical poetry and art in the triumphs and processions of the marine deities, drawing the chariot of the sea-god in its progress by the waves. The imaginative Greeks pictured to themselves the horses of Poseidon within the rolling and bounding waves as they pursue one another in haste in the direction of the shore, “curling their monstrous heads.” This could seem to account for the constant and shut connection between the god and the horse. Thetis carries the arms forged by Vulcan for Achilles, in allusion to the succour brought by Pyrrhus to the Italian Greeks in opposition to the barbarians, because the rising Romans have been termed by them.
It’s also borne by many seaport towns in allusion to the commerce and commerce of the port, as in the arms of town of Belfast. In a roll of arms of that date, a dolphin is given as the coat of Gile de Fiseburn. The dolphin was the insignia of the Eastern Empire-the Empire of Constantinople. The Arms of Peter Courteney, Bishop of Exeter, 1478, continues to be to be seen in the episcopal palace environed with the dolphins of Constantinople. Another Courteney, the Marquis of Exeter, became first the favorite, and subsequently the victim of the brutal tyrant Henry VIII. A branch of the imperial Courteneys settled in England throughout the reign of Henry II., and their descendants were among the principal Barons of the realm. Cromwell, Protector, bore as supporters a lion of England and a sea-horse, probably to indicate his protectorship of the sea, as of the land. The Westenras (Baron Rossmore), descended from the household of Van Wassenhaer of Wassenburg, have been of great antiquity in Holland, and they bore the augmentation of the sea-horse in reference to the valour and intrepidity of an ancestor, who, through the Duke of Alva’s campaign, was actively employed in opposition to the enemies of his country and undertook at great threat to swim across an arm of the sea with important despatches to his besieged countrymen.
Bossewell (“Works of Armorie,” 1589), in his peculiar mixture of English and Latin, provides a quaint description of the animal: “This water-horse of the sea known as a hippotame, for that he’s like an horse in back, mayne, and neying: rostro resupinato a primis dentibus: cauda tortuosa, ungulis binis. The Sea-horse is of very frequent use in armory, and often has reference to meritorious actions carried out at sea. In Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” we find a reference to a veritable sea-horse, if we may believe our authority. The male and feminine of a species may be physically alike (sexual monomorphism) or have physical variations (sexual dimorphism). He abideth in the waters on the day, and eateth corn by evening et hunc Nilus gignit.” The latter may be classed with those improbable ornamental types often employed in fountains and waterworks, such as the Ichthyocentaur, i.e., a mix of man and horse, or the centaur with a fish’s extremity.