This ClipArt gallery offers 35 illustrations of various shapes of shields that are used in coats of arms and heraldry.
"The escutcheons of maiden ladies and widows are painted on a lozenge-shaped shield." -Hall, 1862
"The Norman pointed shield is generally used in Heraldic paintings in ecclesiastical buildings." -Hall,…
"The best known heraldic shield is that called the heater-shaped, a type common during the thirteenth…