brass rubbings
Subject
Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
Scope Note: Rubbings made from monumental, memorial brass plaques found in churches; created by using ink, colored wax, or another material to transfer an image on paper. Creating and collecting brass rubbings was a popular hobby in Britain from 17th-19th centuries, although the term may refer to any rubbing made from a brass plaque in any time period or culture
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Marjorie Kocher brass rubbings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-009
Abstract
This collection includes rubbings (wax engravings) of monuments which date from the 13th to 17th centuries. Scholars of Medieval Studies and Shakespeare and his times will find the rubbings useful. The collection contains eighty medieval monumental brass rubbings of the British Isles.
Dates:
1960s
Marie Kuehl brass rubbings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-010
Abstract
A collection of 74 monumental brass rubbings representing England, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Rubbings span a range of dates from the beginning of the 15th century to the middle of the 18th. Rubbings are useful to scholars of Medieval Studies, Comparative History, and Shakespeare and his times.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-1975