{"collection":"lcr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/lcr/fsca/fsca72.htm","path":"lcr/fsca/fsca72.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/lcr/fsca/fsca72.htm","text":"Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art, by John Vinycomb, [1909]\nor Lion poisson, a mythical sea-creature, frequently used in heraldry as an emblem of bold actions achieved on the ocean in the country's service. It is depicted as the fore part of a lion with webbed feet, the hinder part ending in a fish's tail.\nTwo such animals support the arms of Viscount Falmouth.\nThe Earl of Howth has for supporters a sea-lion\nargent, and a mermaid, proper. The crest also is a sea-lion.\nThe crest of Duckworth is a tower, the battlements partly demolished, from\nSilvestre.\u2014Argent, a sea-lion couchant azure, crowned armed and langued gules.\nWhen the sea-lion or other compounded creature of this kind is erect, it should be clearly blazoned as \"a sea-lion erect on his tail,\" to distinguish it from naiant, the swimming position natural to it.","title":"Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art: Fictitious Crea...","type":"page"}