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monumental brass Lady

Object number

LDSAL783

Artist/Designer/Maker

- manufacturer

Production date

Circa 1555

Production place

London

Material

copper alloy
brass

Dimensions

Height: 318mm
Width: 115mm
Depth: 1mm

Location

Burlington House -

References

Reference (free text)

Mill-Stephenson (1926) No. XI

Reference (free text)

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, Series II, XXXII, 67

Reference (free text)

MBS Bulletin 70 (Oct 1995), 204

Reference (free text)

MBS Transactions XVI, 57-8 (with illustrations of existing brass and its setting in tomb from a drawings by Thomas Fisher in the Guildhall Library).
    Monumental brass fragment. Shows a lady, kneeling at a desk with a book open, facing to dexter; legs and feet broken away. Recessed areas of cap and collar have been filled white, those of the dress red, but both overpainted in black. It is possible that she is Elizabeth Woodruffe, wife of David Woodruffe. David died in 1563 and Elizabeth died in 1572. It is thought probable that the brass came from St. Andrew Undershaft, London.