Chloridia : rites to Chloris and her nymphs : personated in a masque, at court, by the Queenes Maiesty and Her Ladies at Shroue-tide, 1630
Chloridia is a 1631 London masque by Ben Jonson, printed for the bookseller Thomas Walkley and performed at court for Queen Henrietta Maria and her ladies. The picture is a pasted-in bookplate-style engraving, not an illustration from the masque itself: a heraldic shield with a diagonal bend, a crest of a helmet and horned animal, and a lion-and-scroll cartouche bearing the names of former owners William Holgate and Thomas Jolley. A designer might take from it the vocabulary of armorial bearings, with its shield, crest, mantling and scrolled frame, as a model for monograms or ex-libris marks.
