Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, the legislative record of Virginia's colonial assembly, edited by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy and published in Richmond by the Virginia State Library, covering its proceedings from 1619. The pictures are three small seal and map plates: a heraldic royal achievement with crown, lion and unicorn supporters, a Virginia provincial seal showing a standing monarch receiving a kneeling figure beneath the words 'En dat Virginia quartam', and a faint line map of a river region. A designer could take from them the formal circular seal layout, with ribbon lettering around a border and a central scene, as a model for official emblems.
