Pages and Knights, Frontispiece for 'The Man at Arms', Edwin Howland Blashfield, American, 1848–1936, Brush and black, grey and white oil paint on illustration board, At right a figure stands in full armor with his helmet up; his left hand is on his waist, and his right rests on the hilt of a sword. Another figure stands at left, leaning on a staff with a quiver of arrows hanging from his waist. Both figures stand on a long arrow that spans the width of the board. The figures flank a shield, with charges of fleurs de Lille and lions, and a banner bearing the motto: 'Dieu et Mon Droit.'

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