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MONUMENTAL EFFIGY In Gloucester Cathedral supposed to represent Robert Duke of Normandy c.1815-32
Etching | 26.8 x 21.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 615679
Charles Alfred Stothard (1786-1821)
MONUMENTAL EFFIGY In Gloucester Cathedral supposed to represent Robert Duke of Normandy c.1815-32
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Etching of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy. View of the effigy of Robert Curthose, from Gloucester Cathedral. Whole length, with crown, chainmail, and surcoat, with right arm folded over body. With English inscription, including publisher's address, 'London Published as the Act directs, July 1815 by C. A. Stothard Jun. 28 Newman Street Oxford Street.' Plate from Charles Alfred Stothard's The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, which he worked on from 1811 until his death in 1821. Stothard originally published etchings of his plates serially, and following his death in 1821 his widow Anna Eliza Bray, re-issued the plates as a full volume in 1832.
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Etching
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26.8 x 21.2 cm (sheet of paper)
25.5 x 20.0 cm (platemark)
20.5 x 12.0 cm (image)