tudor effigies

[Tuppence]

thought somebody might be interested, and as she requests forwarding... :


I am pleased to announce the addition of new effigies to the Costume
Research Image Library (CRIL) at a new, user-friendly web address:
www.tudoreffigies.co.uk.

Please visit, take a good look at the 36 new effigies (all of which are in
Sussex churches) and do send me feedback at the email address below. I would
like to know: why are the effigies interesting to you, how you will use the
information they provide, and how can the database be improved?

If you are in touch with other people who would like to know about the Tudor
effigies available online, please pass on this message. If you manage a
links page for a relevant website, please add www.tudoreffigies.co.uk to it.

Thanks for your interest ­ and, to previous database users, thanks very much
for your patience while the address change and upgrade have been happening!

A third phase of research in Essex is underway (thanks to the Pasold
Research Fund). Your comments help the project progress and provide sound
evidence for future grant applications. The research centre at Winchester
School of Art is coming to an end after five successful years. This means
that the database needs new funding or rehoming!

Regards,
Jane M-D (Dr Jane Malcolm-Davies)

[Annie the Pedlar]

Hi Tuppumce.
It says I'm not authorised to look at the effigies page
Is there another way in?

The Kentwell lot (700 of us) are EXTREMELY interested in local, ie Suffolk, effigies and brass rubbings and memorials and portraits of minor Tudorbethan folk hiding in the bottom drawers of local museums. Kentwell portrays a country estate and it seems obvious to me that the country gentry were dressing differently from the rich folk in Lomdon.
There is a paucity of contemporary evidence for whatever specific year we portray so as a costume maker I'm desparate for other counties to produce books like the invaluable Suffolk brasses books I picked up in Long Melford church.

So what I'm saying is every year 700 people need clothes that reflect the range of status found in a specific year picked from the reign of the Tudors (Elizabeth included) and we would like everyone to look slightly different - very hard when you have only got 2 English pictures to base your styles on. So something like the effigies data base sounds wonderful.

And can we work on museums digging out what they think are their unumportant portraits and doing the same with those.......although pictures on the Web are useless for picking out detail. I want a buy the poster (best) or the postcard (second best) sevice.

[Annie the Pedlar]

I managed to access the site by Googling Tudor Effigies.

[Handbag]

http://www.tudoreffigies.co.uk/

the previous link had a fullstop too many

nice site ! Thanks for bringing it to our attention!!

[ViscontesseD'Asbeau]

That's a great resource.

I'm particularly fond of the Herbert effigies at St Crux, in York. Worth a look for anyone who likes a good effigy.