Brass Rubbing: Thomas and Emme Pownder with children

Description from 1971-72 exhibit catalog by Kathleen Cairns: "Ipswich, Museum--Thomas Pownder, 1525. In civil dress, with wife and two sons and six daughters, his merchant mark, and the arms of the City Ipswich. One son is in academic dress, the other in civil dress with a satchel at his belt. The daughters are dressed like the mother with rosaries hanging from their belts. The brass, from a Flemish workshop, is covered with beautiful diaper work. Border inscription is in English with four Evangels at the corners. INSCRIPTION: Here lieth buried Thomas Pownder, merchant and sometime balie (baliff?) of Ipswich which departed in the year 1525 and 7th day of November and Emme Pownder, his wife which departed in the year 15__." From the catalogue, An Exhibition of Medieval Brass Rubbings by Kathleen H. Cairns: information identical to above entry

Cairns, Kathleen H. An Exhibition of Brass Rubbings from the Collection of Kathleen H. Cairns, December 5, 1971 - January 14, 1972. Botetourt Gallery and Museum, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Catalog #36. Felgate, T.M. Knights on Suffolk Brasses. East Anglian Magazine Ltd. Ipswich, Suffolk 1976. Spinke, Winifred. A Memento from Old England. Bury St. Edmunds, n.d. English Brass Rubbings (exhibit catalogue), Williamsburg, VA, 1971. Brass Rubbings: A Pageant of History (exhibit catalogue), Champaign, 1966. Medieval Brass Rubbings (exhibit catalogue), Pittsburgh, 1969. "Rubbing shoulders with the past," Heritage March 1986, p. 4. Cairns, Kathleen H. An Exhibition of Medieval Brass Rubbings, December 7, 1969 through January 4, 1970. Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh. Catalog #70. Cairns, Kathleen H. An Exhibition of Medieval Brass Rubbings, October 20 through November 19. Catalog #57.