Effigy of Sir John Stanley, St. Peter's Church, Elford, Staffordshire, England, 1848-9 (hand coloured engraving)

15th century alabaster tomb of Sir John Stanley (1423-74). The coats of arms on the shields depict the Stanley emblems of three stags' heads and also carved beside Sir John's head is the Stanley family crest of an eagle and baby, commemorating the legend of an ancestor finding a baby in an eagle's nest. This story has been preserved in several pub signs in England, of which the most celebrated is 'The Eagle and Child' in St Giles, Oxford. The drawings of the Elford monuments were made by Richardson for his 'Monumental Effigies and Tombs in Elford Church', published in 1852.