Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia is a published edition of the colonial legislature's records, edited by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy for the Virginia State Library and first issued in Richmond. The four pictures are seals and coats of arms from the colony: an oval seal of Virginia with a crowned shield and motto, a royal seal of a crowned king with sword and orb inscribed Britanniae Franciae et Hiberniae, a heraldic achievement with supporters and a shield quartering a cross, and a later ornate achievement framing a dining scene with Greek lettering. A designer could take from them the vocabulary of oval seal borders, heraldic shields and rococo cartouche framing.
