- Title:
Hugh Bristowe, Parson, The Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Waddesdon
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1968
- Medium:
- Crayon rubbing on thin, smooth, white wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Image: 36 × 17 inches (91.4 × 43.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower left: "Hugh Bristowe, Parson, 1548 | Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire"; lower right: "Townsend Rich | July 22, 1968"
Lettered lower center: "Som tyme I was persone here | Of thys churche of Wadsdon | Above the space of fforty yere | Elect unto the ffirst porcyon | A thowsand ffyve hundreth forty and ayght | the xxviii day of November | Nede must I goo God graunt me ye way strayght | Com was my tyme I myght tary no lenger | Hugh Bristowe was my name | I was so called of many a one | By Crewel dethe my body was slayne | And brought to my grave under this stone | Besecheyng Criste to have mercy | On my pore sowle and all Cristen | Desyerying you of youre charyte | To say our lordes prayer Amen"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Townsend Rich
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Undetermined
- Accession Number:
- B1982.21.149
- Classification:
- Brass Rubbings
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | portrait
- Associated Places:
- Waddesdon
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:84063
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Rubbed by Townsend Rich, 1909–1998, American, Hugh Bristowe, Parson, The Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Waddesdon, 1968
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