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| 説明 | Floor marker: "Near this spot Charles Alfred Stothard fell and died, May 28th 1821"Charles Alfred Stothard 1786 - 1821 was an antiquarian draughtsman, with a special interest in monumental effigies.In May 1821 he went to Devon to make drawings for Daniel and Samuel Lysons' history of Devon, Magna Britannia, vol. 6, Devonshire, published in 1822. He died falling from a ladder while tracing a portrait from one of the chancel windows, striking his head on the edge of a monumental effigy beside the altar. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/eX9CL57t40 A later antiquarian, W. H. Hamilton Rogers, who also made studies of the Ferrers family in the same church, wrote 70 years later:"A gifted student in the pursuit we also at humbler distance love, made pilgrimage here, and was engaged in making a drawing of its interesting painted story, when death suddenly stayed the work of the artist, snapping the very pencil in his fingers, and instantly translated him, from picturing the earthly image of the founder of these courts below, into his immortal presence in the great temple above... His cunning fingers are mouldering in the dust below, and moss and decay are stealthily obliterating his record outside, but the fidelity and truth of his works remain bright and undimmed, forming his best and most enduring monument".(The "founder of these courts below" was Sir William Ferrers, founder of Bere Ferrers church, whose image appears in the stained glass window Stothard was drawing at the time of his death)A note in his pocket from his wife, said 'Take care not to fall from high places'. - Church of St Andrew, Bere Ferrers Devon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alfred_StothardPicture with thanks - copyright David Ross and Britain Express www.britainexpress.com/counties/devon/churches/bere-ferre... |
| 撮影日 | 2022-12-01 15:19:29 |
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