Fettiplace Tomb in St Mary the Virgin, Swinbrook, Oxfordshire
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card
Measurements
97 x 177 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522268
Summary
A monochrome gelatine silver print stereograph of the Fettiplace Tomb in St Mary the Virgin, Swinbrook, Oxfordshire The 2 images, with rectangular top edges, are mounted in a medium grey card frame with rounded corners and no space between them. The image shows the 1613 tomb which contains three male Fettiplaces, recumbent, stacked as if on shelves, one above the other. The effigies are arranged with the oldest at the bottom and the newest at the top. So you will find the bottom Fettiplace wearing an Elizabethan ruff, but his son, Alexander, wears a high collar, as does his son and heir, William (d. 1562).There is an addition Fettiplace tomb constructed in 1686. The image was quite likely taken by T.H. Pettipher of Oxfordshire, based on similar images in the same set. Marking: Recto, Handwritten in pencil vertically on the right hand side " Monuments Swinbrook Church". Verso, Nil
Provenance
Donated on 5 September 2012 to the Fox Talbot Museum by Mrs Sylvia Warwick.