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Correspondence and papers relating to Cobham brasses

Catalogue reference: COB

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Reference: COB
Title: Correspondence and papers relating to Cobham brasses
Date: 1832-1842
Description: Letters to John Gough Nichols, FSA (1806-73) and notes compiled or collected by him relating mostly to the brasses in Cobham church, Kent; c. 1832-42. Nichols intended to publish a series of engravings of the brasses entitled Sepulchral Memorials of the Family of Cobham (1841); see the reference (p. 341 n.) in Nichols' edition of extracts by Robert Glover from Cobham muniments, 'Memorials of the Family of Cobham', Coll. Top. et Gen., 7 (June 1841), 320-54. This project was abandoned (correspondence in COB/001 includes criticism of the engravings) but the plates were subsequently published by F. C. Brooke as Sepulchral Memorials of the Cobham Family (1836-74).
Held by: Society of Antiquaries of London
Former department reference: SAL/MS/987/1,2; MS 987
Creator(s): Nichols, John Gough (1806-1873), printer and antiquary
Immediate source of acquisition: Extracted from the portfolio of brass rubbings for Kent (Cobham), July 1996.
Unpublished finding aids: Society of Antiquaries online catalogue: https://collections.sal.org.uk/cob
Record URL: https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/c73b6a40-da8c-42a3-992a-78ce10361542/