William Herschel’s Application for a Coat of Arms

Autor:	Michael Hoskin
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) media_common.quotation_subject Knight Art history Astronomy and Astrophysics Art Order (virtue) Coat of arms media_common
Zdroj:	Journal for the History of Astronomy. 47:210-213
ISSN:	1753-8556 0021-8286
Popis:	In 1816, William Herschel was appointed a knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. In 1818, he applied for a coat of arms. This was because all Guelphic knights were asked to supply for display in Hanover a rectangular copper plate with their arms in coloured enamel. But this project came to nothing, and Herschel did not pursue his application. His son John was granted arms in 1838 when appointed baronet, and it is possible that the design of John’s arms was based on one of the two 1818 sketches supplied to his father.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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