Swan marks of Lincolnshire Size:Standard: 6 x 4in circa 1940

circa 1940

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Lubok (plural Lubki) prints were Russian popular prints with simple graphics portraying stories derived from literature

the lower figure of plate 7

Swan marks of Lincolnshire Size:Standard: 6 x 4in circa 1940Eighteen swan marks issued by the Crown to landowners in the county of Lincolnshire, England, including to John Whitgift (c. 1530 1577), Dean of Lincoln and later Archbishop of Canterbury . The marks illustrated here were incised in the beaks of the birds by a swan herd. The names of those with grants of swans are noted in the margin by each painted mark. Pages 6 7 from Royal Society manuscript MS 106, a register of swan marks, kept by the Queen's