Tusked

Alexander Nisbet, «System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical: With the True Art of Blazon», subtitle «according to the most approved heralds in Europe: illustrated with suitable examples of armoria figures, and achievements of the most considerable surnames and families in Scotland, together with historical and genealogical memorials relative thereto», printed by J. MackEuen, Edinburgh, 1722.

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This is the very 1^st edition of this book and I consult the edition [Nisbet, A.; 1816].

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Bibliographical reference of century XVIII.

Author: Nisbet, Alexander.

The following articles cite this bibliographic reference:

• Nisbet, A.; 1816
• Parker, J. H.; 1847

External link:

• Alexander Nisbet, Walter Macfarlan, and a Question of Authorship.

Upon an oval, pean an Indian elephant statant Or, armed Argent, strapped over the belly, hump and rump Sable, cottised Or, charged on his left flank with a rose Gules, barbed Vert, seeded Or; seated on his neck a mahout, in his sinister hand a stick in bend sinister Argent.

Watercolor finishing

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Credits: Kevin Derek Couling is the author of the English text of the blazon and Antonio Salmerón y Cabañas is the author of the heraldic art.

Blazon keywords: Pean, Elephant, Statant, Or, Tusked, Sable, Bendy, Rose, Gules, Barbed, Vert, Seeded, Male figure, Sinister, Hand and In bend sinister.

Style keywords: Watercolor and Oval.

Classification: Badge and Personal.

Bearer: Juchter van Bergen Quast, Rudolf.

In the hoist the arms of Rudolph Andries Ulrich Juchter van Bergen Quast and in the fly pean, Gules and Gules, between two transverse bands Or, bearing the motto «Nemo me impune lacessit» in letters Sable, in the first compartment an Indian elephant statant Or, armed Argent, strapped over the belly, hump and rump Sable, cottised Or, charged on his left flank with a rose Gules, barbed Vert, seeded Or; seated on his neck a mahout, in his sinister hand a stick in bend sinister Argent; in the second compartment two leopard faces Or; in the third compartment a leopard face Or; and fringed compony Gules and Or.

Watercolor finishing

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Credits: Kevin Derek Couling is the author of the English text of the blazon and Antonio Salmerón y Cabañas is the author of the heraldic art.

Blazon keywords: Pean, Gules, Two, Bend, Motto (motivation), Elephant, Statant, Or, Tusked, Sable, Bendy, Rose, Barbed, Vert, Seeded, Male figure, Sinister, Hand, In bend sinister, One, Head and Leopard.

Style keywords: Watercolor.

Classification: Flag and Personal.

Bearer: Juchter van Bergen Quast, Rudolf.