Swan marks of Lincolnshire mb-width 1761 An artist copying a bust

An artist copying a bust on a pedestal in the Royal Academy at Somerset House

Gloucestershire

7 DYERS BUILDINGS

in September 1873

Swan marks of Lincolnshire mb-width 1761 An artist copying a bustNine swan marks issued by the Crown to landowners in the county of Lincolnshire, England, including to 'Sir John Hossye Knyght' [eg Sir John Hussey]. 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. Page 4 from Royal Society manuscript MS 106, a register of swan marks, kept by the Queen's swan herd, possibly a member of the Towneley