Border design with knights, ladies and dragons (recto); Sketches for border elements (verso)
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964
Catalogue
- Year
- 1850
- Dimensions
- sheet: 9 1/8 x 7 3/8 in. (23.1 x 18.7 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Doyle
Artist
Doyle is a surname of Irish origin. The name is a back-formation from O'Doyle, which is an Anglicisation of the Irish Ó Dubhghaill, meaning "descendant of Dubhghall". There is another possible etymology: the Anglo-Norman surname D'Oyley with agglutination of the French article de. It means 'from Ouilly', the name of a knight who originated from one of the places named Ouilly in Normandy, such as Ouilly-le-Tesson, Ouilly-le-Vicomte, etc. The relationship with the family D'Oyly is unknown.
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