Rubbing2024.24 - Robert Coulthirst
Title
Rubbing2024.24 - Robert Coulthirst
Description
Description of Rubbing: He is facing forward. The hand on the left is holding the testament and the hand on the right is holding a staff or cane that is straight and goes to near his feet.
He has long robes with many pleats. His hair ends at the bottom of his earlobes and he has a long triangular beard with a mustache. He has a puffy collar with triangular details. His shirt has detailed sleeve cuffs. He is standing on a tiled floor with a checker pattern.
There are 4 shields, one in each corner. They are all the same. They are split in two with an outstretched lion on the top. A line and then 3 tents with the middle tent having triangular top and a flared out bottom. It is very detailed with individual strands of hair and wrinkles and has lots of crosshatched shading.
Missing inscription border that says:
"HERE LYETH BVRYED THE BODY OF ROBERT COVLTHIRST FREE OF Y MARCHANTAYLORS OF LONDON AND LATE OF VPLEATHAM GENT: WHO DEPARTEDHIS LIFE Y 7TH OF AVGVST 1631 BEING OF THE AGE OF 90 YEARES WHOSE SOVLE RESTETH W AELUGHTEY "
He has long robes with many pleats. His hair ends at the bottom of his earlobes and he has a long triangular beard with a mustache. He has a puffy collar with triangular details. His shirt has detailed sleeve cuffs. He is standing on a tiled floor with a checker pattern.
There are 4 shields, one in each corner. They are all the same. They are split in two with an outstretched lion on the top. A line and then 3 tents with the middle tent having triangular top and a flared out bottom. It is very detailed with individual strands of hair and wrinkles and has lots of crosshatched shading.
Missing inscription border that says:
"HERE LYETH BVRYED THE BODY OF ROBERT COVLTHIRST FREE OF Y MARCHANTAYLORS OF LONDON AND LATE OF VPLEATHAM GENT: WHO DEPARTEDHIS LIFE Y 7TH OF AVGVST 1631 BEING OF THE AGE OF 90 YEARES WHOSE SOVLE RESTETH W AELUGHTEY "
Source
"Monumental Brass of Robert Coulthirst, at Kirkleatham." 1892. Reliquary, Quarterly Journal & Review. https://www.cosmobooks.co.uk/pages/books/506890/stated/monumental-brass-of-robert-coulthirst-at-kirkleatham-an-original-article-from-the-reliquary.
Date
1631
Format
Parchment 76cm x 152cm
Rubbing 69cm x 143cm
Coverage
Kirkleatham
Files
Collection
Citation
“Rubbing2024.24 - Robert Coulthirst,” Exhibits, accessed April 20, 2025, https://exhibits.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/29275.