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ADVERTISEMENT.
On issuing the twelfth and concluding number of the Monumental EfHgies of Great Britain to
the Subscribers and the Public, Mrs. Bray is desirous to explain the reasons which have constrained
her to publish the Introduction and Historical Descriptions, written by her brother, Alfred John
Kempe, Esq. F.S.A. in a separate form, and to charge for it accordingly.
Since Mr. Charles Stothard's decease, who not only executed the drawings but the etchings
from them himself, the work has been placed in a very different position, and Mrs. Bray has been
obliged to employ artists, at a very heavy expense, for the purpose of furnishing the plates, twelve
in each number.
The completion of the Monumental EfHgies in a manner respectful to her late husband's great
talents, and satisfactory to the Subscribers, has ever been her primary object ; and, long as the
interval may seem that has elapsed between Mr. Stothard's decease and such completion, the un-
dertaking has never stood still.
With respect to the Head-plates for the different Monuments, Mr. Stothard, had he survived,
would no doubt have added many more to those which he published ; but, except in the instance of
the tomb of Sir Robert de Shurland, he left behind him no materials available to pursue his
intention. His practice in drawing the elevation of Monuments for the Head-plates, was merely
to take the just admeasurements, and sketch the mouldings and architectural parts, reserving the
putting such materials together for a future opportunity. To these drawings, made only for his
cum iw/orwafioM, there were not any memoranda in writing appended, indicating to what tombs
they should be applied : consequently (the overwhelming increase of expense out of the question)
it became impossible to appropriate them to the purpose for which they were made. It is, however,
fortunate that in the head-plates will be found distinct examples of the variation in altar-tombs,
from the thirteenth to the early part of the fifteenth century.
The Introduction and Historical Descriptions for the Monumental EfHgies, will be found to con-
sist of upwards of one hundred and twenty pages of letter press, elegantly printed, and embellished
with a Frontispiece, etched by the late Mr. Charles Stothard, after an original design by his father;
his Portrait, by Chalon, engraved by Cooper ; a View of the inscribed CofHn-lid of Matilda, Queen
of William the Conqueror; the elevation of the Tomb of Sir Robert Shurland, at Minster Church,
Sheppy; and various wood-blocks, not here particularized.
The Price of the Introduction and Historical Descriptions will, therefore, be the same as that
of the Numbers containing the EfHgies ;—Large Paper, 15^.; Small Paper, ^1. 53.
A very limited edition of the work has been struck off.
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On issuing the twelfth and concluding number of the Monumental EfHgies of Great Britain to
the Subscribers and the Public, Mrs. Bray is desirous to explain the reasons which have constrained
her to publish the Introduction and Historical Descriptions, written by her brother, Alfred John
Kempe, Esq. F.S.A. in a separate form, and to charge for it accordingly.
Since Mr. Charles Stothard's decease, who not only executed the drawings but the etchings
from them himself, the work has been placed in a very different position, and Mrs. Bray has been
obliged to employ artists, at a very heavy expense, for the purpose of furnishing the plates, twelve
in each number.
The completion of the Monumental EfHgies in a manner respectful to her late husband's great
talents, and satisfactory to the Subscribers, has ever been her primary object ; and, long as the
interval may seem that has elapsed between Mr. Stothard's decease and such completion, the un-
dertaking has never stood still.
With respect to the Head-plates for the different Monuments, Mr. Stothard, had he survived,
would no doubt have added many more to those which he published ; but, except in the instance of
the tomb of Sir Robert de Shurland, he left behind him no materials available to pursue his
intention. His practice in drawing the elevation of Monuments for the Head-plates, was merely
to take the just admeasurements, and sketch the mouldings and architectural parts, reserving the
putting such materials together for a future opportunity. To these drawings, made only for his
cum iw/orwafioM, there were not any memoranda in writing appended, indicating to what tombs
they should be applied : consequently (the overwhelming increase of expense out of the question)
it became impossible to appropriate them to the purpose for which they were made. It is, however,
fortunate that in the head-plates will be found distinct examples of the variation in altar-tombs,
from the thirteenth to the early part of the fifteenth century.
The Introduction and Historical Descriptions for the Monumental EfHgies, will be found to con-
sist of upwards of one hundred and twenty pages of letter press, elegantly printed, and embellished
with a Frontispiece, etched by the late Mr. Charles Stothard, after an original design by his father;
his Portrait, by Chalon, engraved by Cooper ; a View of the inscribed CofHn-lid of Matilda, Queen
of William the Conqueror; the elevation of the Tomb of Sir Robert Shurland, at Minster Church,
Sheppy; and various wood-blocks, not here particularized.
The Price of the Introduction and Historical Descriptions will, therefore, be the same as that
of the Numbers containing the EfHgies ;—Large Paper, 15^.; Small Paper, ^1. 53.
A very limited edition of the work has been struck off.
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