Stothard, Charles Alfred; Kempe, Alfred John: The monumental effigies of Great Britain: selected from our cathedrals and churches ; for the purpose of bringing together, and preserving correct representations of the best historical illustrations extant, from the Norman conquest to the reign of Henry the Eight (London, 1817)

CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT

OF THE
PLATES IN THE MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES OF GREAT BRITAIN,

IN WHICH THE PERIOD OF THE SCULPTURE HAS BEEN CHIEFLY REGARDED.

[The whole of the Plates are from Mr. Charles Stothard's original drawings. The work was issued at intervals in
twelve Numbers, containing twelve Plates each. All the Effigies in the nine first Numbers, and nine of the tenth Num-
ber, were etched by Mr. C. Stothard himself; Mr. Robert Stothard, the late Mr. Bartholomew Howlett, and Mr. Charles
James Smith, were severally employed in completing the work. Mr. Blore etched one Plate, after the drawing from
the Effigy of Sir Thomas Cawne. The colouring has been executed by Mr. Edward Davis. The Roman numerals affixed
to the different titles of the Plates in this list, show the number in which they appeared. So anxious was Mr. C.
Stothard that the Public should have the benefit of his practical improvement in executing the Plates for his work, that
he etched some of those first issued over again, and circulated them gratis to his Subscribers. The Plates which
he re-etched have this mark f- prefixed in the List. Those which they were intended to replace he of course consi-
dered as cancelled. Mr. Stothard himself furnished but eight descriptions for his etchings, which will be distinguished
by the pages which contain them being without numbers at the bottom.
A front and profile view of the Effigy of Sir Bernard Brocas, who was beheaded in 1400 (and for whom there is a
monument in the Chapel of St. Edmund, Westminster Abbey), were issued as two of the Plates of his first Number.
His further experience in the style of our ancient sculptures, acquired as his work proceeded, made him cancel this
subject altogether; as he saw that the shield of the figure, bearing a rampant lion, was a modern work, and doubted,
perhaps, the authenticity of the Effigy itself, which appeared to have been executed, rather in a clumsy way, after an
original figure. This reduces the number of Plates from 144 to 142.
The expense incident to colouring all the details of the Tablet of Memorial for Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Maine
and Anjou (see Plate No. 2.) precluded Mr. Stothard from publishing it fully illuminated in his Monumental Effigies;
He contented himself, therefore, with causing the figure only to be coloured for that Work, and published the Tablet of
Geoffrey Plantagenet, and a general view of all the Royal Effigies at Fontevraud, as two separate Plates, elaborately
illuminated after the original subjects. These two Plates will be found desirable illustrations to bind up with the Plates
of the Monumental Effigies.]

Page.
1. Monumental Efhgy on the South side of the Nave of Salisbury Cathedral, RoGER BiSHop

of SALISBURY (NO. IV.) ......... 1
2. GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET, Earl of Maine and Anjou, died 1149, from an enamelled
tablet lormerly in the church of St. Julien at Mans (No. ix.) . . . .2
3. Monumental Effigy on the South side of the Nave of Salisbury Cathedral, JocELYN
BlSHOP of SALISBURY (NO. IV.) ....... 4
4. HENRY the SECOND, surnamed Plantagenet, died 1189 (NO. vm.) . . .5
5. Profile view of the same (No. xu.) . . . * - - .6
6. ELEANOR de GuiENNE, Queen of Henry II. from her Efhgy at Fontevraud (NO. xi.) . 7
7. Profile view of the same (No. xu.) . . . - * * * . ib-

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