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The earliest examples come from the thirteenth century but they were popular up until the seventeenth century and then again in the Victorian Gothic Revival. Surviving brasses from the medieval period are limited due to the turbulent history of the Church but they do survive in considerable numbers in the East of England, Germany and Flanders. Made from an alloy of copper and zinc, a material known as latten, they were laid into church floors and walls. Monumental brasses are historically and stylistically significant because they record dress, architecture, armoury, heraldry (coats of arms and insignia) and palaeography (handwriting) in a dated object. In addition they tell the story of memorial and patronage. \n\r\nThe practice of recording brasses through a process of rubbing originates from the Victorian Gothic Revival. An early method of pouring printer’s ink into engraved lines and then placing damp tissue paper over the brass was replaced around the mid-nineteenth century with the more effective technique of using black shoemaker’s wax, known as heel ball. Brass rubbing continued to be a popular hobby into the twentieth century before the process was understood to cause damage to the brasses. \r\n","physicalDescription":"Rubbing of the brass effigy of William Scors (d. 1420), tailor and clothier, from a brass showing Agnes Fortey, her first husband William Scors, and her second husband Thomas Fortey (d. 1447), and two groups of children. William Scors is identified as a tailor by the open pair of scissors beneath his feet.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"wax","id":"AAT14585"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"rubbing","id":"AAT178924"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"wax rubbing of monumental brass on paper, gold on black","categories":[{"text":"Rubbings","id":"THES253217"},{"text":"Death","id":"THES48970"},{"text":"Commemoration","id":"THES250532"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2017KD6435"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES383906"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"brass rubbing","id":"x38760"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Northleach","id":"x46075"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"Rubbing would have been made on site at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul. Original brass probably made elsewhere."}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1447","earliest":"1447-01-01","latest":"1447-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"This is the date the monumental brass was made. The rubbing is likely to have been made in the 19th or early 20th century."}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"E.4934-1911","id":"O721619"},"association":"Ensemble"}],"creditLine":"Given by Mrs J Stoddard","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"876","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"1972","earliest":"1972-01-01","latest":"1972-12-31"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"241","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"1972","earliest":"1972-01-01","latest":"1972-12-31"},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from the Print Room's Print Catalogue and converted from centimetres.","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Rubbing taken from a collection of brasses depicting Agnes Fortey, her first husband, William Scors (d. 1420), and her second husband, Thomas Fortey (d. 1447), and two groups of children, in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Northleach, Gloucestershire. This single rubbing was given by Mrs J Stoddard. Another brass rubbing of all three figures and the children is also in the collection (E.4934-1911). ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Rubbing of the brass effigy of William Scors, tailor and clothier (d. 1420), dated to 1447, in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Northleach, Gloucestershire","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>V&amp;A Print Room's Print Catalogue: BRASS RUBBINGS CATALOGUE 1435-1500,</u> 1991"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Stephenson, Mill. <u>A List of Monumental Brasses in the British Isles.</u> London: Headley Brothers, 1926, and supplement, 1956. "},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"C. T. Davis. <u>The Monumental Brasses of Gloustershire</u>. 1899. pp. 48-50.\r\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[{"text":"Northleach","id":"x46075"}],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"Tailor","id":"AAT25365"},{"text":"Family","id":"x35402"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.405-1972"],"accessionNumberNum":"405","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1972,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-15","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}