Drawings COBHAM (Kent): Church of St Mary Magdalene

Object number

LDSAL2020.22.9

Artist/Designer/Maker

Fisher, Thomas - Artist

Production date

19th century

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 525mm
Width: 335mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Grave Stone of John de Cobham (the founder) in the Chancel of Cobham Church, Kent. 5th from South East.

Inscription content

Scale, 2½ Inches to a Foot.

References

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries', Antiquaries Journal 22 (1942): 242. Thomas Fisher is erroneously referred to as Thomas Foster in this reference.

Reference (free text)

Mill Stephenson, A List of Monumental Brasses in the British Isles (London: Headly Brothers, 1926), p. 218.

Reference (free text)

Nigel Saul, Death, Art, and Memory in Medieval England: The Cobham Family and Their Monuments, 1300-1500 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 91. Illustration, fig. 11, p. 91.

Reference (free text)

Richard Gough, Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain, Applied to Illustrate the History of Families, Manners, Habits, and Arts, at the Different Periods from the Norman Conquest to the Seventeenth Century 2 vols. (London: J Nichols, 1786-1796), 2: part 2, p. 22. Illustration (Engraving), pl. VI, opp. p. 22.

Reference (free text)

John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester 4 vols. (London: John Nichols, 1795-1811), 2: part 2, p. 442. Illustration (Engraving), pl. LXXVII, opp. p. 442.

Reference (free text)

John Thorpe, Custumale Roffense: From the Original Manuscript in the Archives of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester (London: John Nichols, 1788), p. 88. Illustration (Engraving), pl. IX, opp. p. 88.

Reference (free text)

Ralph Griffin and Mill Stephenson, A List of Monumental Brasses Remaining in the County of Kent in 1922: With Notes of Some Lost Examples (London: Headley Brothers, 1923), p. 83.