Sir Simon de Felbrigg (d.1351) and his wife Margaret Felbrigg, Lady Felbrigg (d.1416)
John Sell Cotman (Norwich 1782 – London 1842)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
610 mm (H)395 mm (W)580 mm (H)365 mm (W)422 mm (H)222 mm (W)
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Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1397824
Summary
Print, engraving, Sir Simon de Felbrigg (d.1351) and his wife Margaret Felbrigg, Lady Felbrigg (d.1416) by John Sell Cotman (Norwich 1782 – London 1842). One of two framed prints of etchings of brass rubbings at St Margarets. Framed, mounted and glazed. Symon Felbrigge and Margaret. Inscribed 'Sir Simon Felbrigg Knt and Lady in Felbrigg Church, Norfolk'. 'Drawn, etched and published by J.S. Cotman, Jan'y 1816'. With scale of feet. 'The brass was commissioned during the lifetime of Sir Simon on the death of his first wife Margaret in 1416 from the workshop known to by that of the marble William West in St Paul's Churchyard, London, which was the leading workshop of the day. The inscription is in latin and blanks were left for Sir Simon's death, which was never filled in and reads in translation: Here lie Simon Felbrigg, knight, former Standard bearer to the most illustrious lord, our lord the King Richard the Second. He died on the ...day of the month of ... in the year of our Lord 14.. and the lady Margaret formerly his wife, of the nation and noble blood of Bohemia and formerly maid of honour to the most noble lady Anne, Queen of England; she died on the 27th day of June in the year of our Lord 1416; upon whose souls may God have mercy; Amen. Sir Simon is shown carrying the personal standard of Richard II, whose arms appear on the left shield at the top, next to another shield with the arms of his queen, Anne of Bohemia. Slightly below these, with due decorum is the shield with the arms of Sir Simon and his wife \Margaret, her half being the arms of her father the Duke of Teschen. Below these again is the Felbrigg badge of a fetterlock, used twice for good measure. Below the shields on the pendant boss of the canopy, is Richard II's person badge of the white hart. Perhaps the proudest detail of all, however, is the Order of the Garter which Sir Simon wears just below his left knee. Sir Simon's death was never filled in because he married again and was eventually buried with his second wife before the high altar of the Blackfriars church in Norwich. Now Blackfriars' Hall.' Taken from Family and Friends. A Regional Survey of British Portraiture by Andrew Moore with Charlotte Crawley.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Makers and roles
John Sell Cotman (Norwich 1782 – London 1842), engraver (printmaker)