Brass Rubbing: Robert Staunton, Esq., and Agnes

1982.05.0034

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Artifact Identification Brass Rubbing: Robert Staunton, Esq., and Agnes   (1982.05.0034)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
  2. :
  3. Documentary Artifacts
  4. :
  5. Graphic Documents
Artist/Maker Kathleen H. Cairns.
Geographic Location
Period Medieval
Date 1458 CE
Culture British, English

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 131.5 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 76.3 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 1.0 cm
Weight 159.0 g
Measuring Remarks Under Review
Materials Paper, Plant--Wood, Metal--Steel, Pigment
Manufacturing Processes Rubbing

Research Remarks

Description

From Bontell:
In this example the knight [sic] is represented as wearing a vizored salade, having the vizor raised to display the countenance. The armour is highly characteristic of the important changes in defensive military appointments, which the altered nature of offensive weapons brought gradually into use. The most remarkable novelties here apparent are the pauldrons for the protection of the shoulders, and the enormous elbow-plates or coudières.
The costume of Lady Staunton [sic] is simple but elegant: she wears the mitred head-dress. The children, in two groups, are placed at the feet of their parents.
The pinnacles of the canopy, with four shields of arms, are lost, a small portion of the border-legend also is now wanting.
Bontell, Monumental Brasses of England (1849).

Published Description Under Review
Bibliography

Felgate, T.M. Knights on Suffolk Brasses. East Anglian Magazine Ltd. Ipswich, Sufflok 1976.
Spinke, Winifred. A Memento from Old England. Bury St. Edmunds, n.d.

Brass Rubbings: A Pageant of History (exhibit catalogue), Champaign, 1966.

Bontell, Rev. Charles. Monumental Brasses of England (1849), pp. 40-41.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Gift of Kathleen H. Cairns
Reproduction no

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