Catton, Charles

Shields, coronets and mottoes designed by a Royal Academician fill these eighteenth-century armorial prints by Charles Catto...

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Shields, coronets and mottoes designed by a Royal Academician fill these eighteenth-century armorial prints by Charles Catton, taken from The English Peerage of 1790. The plates are credited to C. Catton R.A., identifying Charles Catton the Elder (1728–1798), the British painter, with engraving by Francis Chesham. Huntingdon, Chandos, Northampton, Leeds and Chesterfield are among the titles, each set out with its supporters and crest as a statement of family and rank. These are heraldic subjects, not views of the towns or counties the titles are named after.

Shields, coronets and mottoes designed by a Royal Academician fill these eighteenth-century armorial prints by Charles Catton, taken from The English Peerage of 1790. The plates are credited to C. Catton R.A., identifying Charles Catton the Elder (1728–1798), the British painter, with engraving by Francis Chesham. Huntingdon, Chandos, Northampton, Leeds and Chesterfield are among the titles, each set out with its supporters and crest as a statement of family and rank. These are heraldic subjects, not views of the towns or counties the titles are named after.

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