Ink drawing: Fitz Simons coat of arms (boar crest, crescents)
Book 1, Page 126
Transcription
A single black-ink drawing centered on an otherwise blank album page. At the top, a boar stands passant on a torse (wreath), its body pierced through by a long spear or arrow — the traditional FitzSimons crest motif of a boar passant pierced by a dart. Below, dark mantling curls outward to either side around a shield with a paler “chief” band charged with two T-shaped (tau-cross) figures; the main field carries two crescents below the chief, a horizontal fesse across the middle, and a single crescent in base. An empty ribbon-like banderole curves across the foot of the shield. A small artist’s signature appears in pencil at lower right of the banderole: R.J. Glover.
Beneath the shield, in blackletter:
Fitz Simons
AI Notes
A black-and-white ink drawing of a Fitz Simons coat of arms, mounted on the album page. The shield bears (in the chief, on a paler band) two tau-cross or T-shaped charges, with two crescents below the chief, a fesse charged with a small lozenge or similar charge across the middle, and a single crescent in base. Above the shield, on a torse/wreath, is a boar passant pierced through the body by a spear or arrow — the traditional FitzSimons heraldic crest motif of a boar pierced through with a dart. Decorative mantling spreads to either side and an empty banderole curves across the base. Below the shield, in blackletter: ‘Fitz Simons.’ Signed at lower right of the banderole in small block letters: ‘R.J. GLOVER’ (the artist).