Swan marks of Lincolnshire Size:XL: 100 x 80cm 4th February 1988

4th February 1988

either side contains text in German

posed on branches: with a dormouse eating a nut

Fully annotated illustration showing 18 different areas of musculature on the human body

Swan marks of Lincolnshire Size:XL: 100 x 80cm 4th February 1988Eighteen 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