FDA-A.529-2018
Parts
Object number
FDA-A.529-2018
Object type
Identification
Title
Henry Smyth and wives Agnes and Jacomyne, 1528 [of the brass, only one lady remains]
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
Female effigy facing half-dexter with right foot slightly advanced; she wears a pedimental head-dress, her gown is tight-fitting and cut almost square at the neck to show the edging of her partlet. Fastened round her waist is a girdle with a tasselled metal tag which touches the ground at her feet. Her girdle and the lappets of her head-dress are beautifully ornamented with angular quatrefoils.
Dimensions
height (effigy): 638mm
width (effigy): 186mm
width (effigy): 186mm
Production
Date
1528
History and association
Object history note
Brass originally included Henry Smyth, a second wife, and children; a marginal and foot inscription
References
• Lack, W., Stuchfield, H. Martin and Whittemore, P., The Monumental Brasses of Buckinghamshire, London: Monumental Brass Society, 1994 (p. 84, no. X)
• Harwood, T. Eustace, The Monumental Brasses, Past and Present, in Eton College Chapel, in Oxford Journal of Monumental Brasses, Vol. II, No. 1, February 1900 (pp. 25-26)
• Harwood, T. Eustace, The Monumental Brasses, Past and Present, in Eton College Chapel, in Oxford Journal of Monumental Brasses, Vol. II, No. 1, February 1900 (pp. 25-26)
