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[Two rubbings from the brasses in memory of Helinor Whistler and Hugh Whistler in the Church at Goring on the Thames, England] – Antique Wall Art

[Two rubbings from the brasses in memory of Helinor Whistler and Hugh Whistler in the Church at Goring on the Thames, England], [ca. 1900] — antique lithograph
[Two rubbings from the brasses in memory of Helinor Whistler and Hugh Whistler in the Church at Goring on the Thames, England], [ca. 1900]. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Two rubbings from the brasses in memory of Helinor Whistler and Hugh Whistler in the Church at Goring on the Thames, England], an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Two rubbings from the brasses in memory of Helinor Whistler and Hugh Whistler in the Church at Goring on the Thames, England]

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Rather than a street or building, this pair of rubbings records the engraved brass memorials to Helinor and Hugh Whistler in the church at Goring, a village on the Thames in England. The inscriptions refer to deaths in the early seventeenth century, a period when brass memorials were a common way for local families to honor their dead in parish churches. The rubbings belong to the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana, reflecting the interest of the American-born painter James McNeill Whistler in the Goring Whistlers, a family he associated with his own ancestry.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium2 prints (1 mount) : lithograph (?).
Genre519 Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection."
NotesText in the memorial tablets includes: Helinor Whistler ... 1630 ..." and "Here lyeth buried the body of Hugh Whistler ... departed this life ... 1615(?) ..." Title devised by Library staff. Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana shown in Division of Prints
SubjectsWhistler, James McNeill,--1834-1903--Family. Tombs & sepulchral monuments--England--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,019 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118349

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