Rubbing2024.51 - Eleanor de Bohun
Title
Rubbing2024.51 - Eleanor de Bohun
Description
Duchess of Gloucester
Notes on the Parchment: "Alanora de Bohun 1399 Westminster"
Description of Rubbing: She is facing forward with her hands in prayer. She is in full widow's dress with headdress. She has a cape that has a connection across her collar bone and goes to her feet. She has a long flowing dress with pleats and folds, no shading. Her feet are not showing and she is ontop of a geometric floor or altar that would be attached to the 3 peaked canopy that is missing.
Notes on the Parchment: "Alanora de Bohun 1399 Westminster"
Description of Rubbing: She is facing forward with her hands in prayer. She is in full widow's dress with headdress. She has a cape that has a connection across her collar bone and goes to her feet. She has a long flowing dress with pleats and folds, no shading. Her feet are not showing and she is ontop of a geometric floor or altar that would be attached to the 3 peaked canopy that is missing.
Source
Hampshire Cultural Trust. 2023. "Brass Rubbing, in Black Heel-Ball on White Paper, Eleanor de Bohun, 1399, Wife of Thomas of Woodstock." Hampshireculture.org.uk. 2023. https://collections.hampshireculture.org.uk/object/brass-rubbing-black-heel-ball-white-paper-eleanor-de-bohun-1399-wife-thomas-woodstock. Spurlock Museum of World Cultures. 2024. "Brass Rubbing: Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester." Illinois.edu. 2024. https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/collections/search-collection/details.php?a=1982.05.0103. Westminster Abbey. 2019. "Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester." Westminster Abbey. 2019. https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/eleanor-de-bohun-duchess-of-gloucester/.
Date
1399
Format
Parchment 66cm x 199cm
Rubbing 55cm x 177cm
Coverage
Westminster Abbey
Files
Collection
Citation
“Rubbing2024.51 - Eleanor de Bohun,” Exhibits, accessed April 30, 2025, https://exhibits.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/29356.