Adelaide Half Pint

Laurel

at Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival, 2 March A.S. LVIII (58) 2024

Calligraphy & Illumination

Kolfinna ValravnRoxbury MillAtlantia

Wordifier

Lady Talia de MoralesAtlantia
Lovely is the fruitof the Laurel Tree
A sure hand transmutesPure color into Beauty
Lovely is the fruitof the Laurel Tree
Sweeter than a fluteGolden as a luteYou see
Lovely is the fruitof the Laurel Tree
Stitches of sea blueAs steady and as trueAs thee
Lovely is the fruitof the Laurel Tree 
This day, March 2nd, Anno Societatis 58, at Our Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival, We name Magistra Adelaide Halfpint to the Order of the Laurel, that she may brighten their number, and affirm her right to display about her arms, to wit, per fess embattled counterchanged argent and or, a tankard also counter charged, a wreath of laurel vert, as a token of the full flower of Our Esteem, for though she be called Halfpint, she is not the least among them. Ragnarr Blackhammer, Roi. Mary Isobel, Reine.  

Materials

Winsor & Newton GouacheMonteverde Permanent Black Documental Ink23k Gold LeafParchment donated by Ruaidhri an Cu

Substrate Size

11" x 14"

Script

Italic

Sources

Window with Scene from The Story of EstherPhilip Galle (copy after) (Holland, Haarlem, 1537-1612)Maerten van Heemskerck (after) (Holland, Heemskerck, 1498-1574)Netherlands, possibly Haarlem, 1620sArchitecture; Architectural ElementsWhite glass, leaded; silver stain; two shades of vitreous paint; sanguine; translucent enamels50 x 27 1/2 in. (127 x 69.85 cm)William Randolph Hearst Collection (45.21.53)https://collections.lacma.org/node/228552 

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