- Title:
- Richard Payton Esq. and His Wife Mary Hyde, The Parish Church of St. Andrew, Isleham
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1966
- Materials & Techniques:
- Crayon rubbing on thin, smooth, white wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Image: 73 × 42 inches (185.4 × 106.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower left: "Richard Payton, Esquire, and His Wife, Mary Hyde, 1574 | Isleham, Cambridgeshire"; lower right: "Townsend Rich | June 25, 1966"
Lettered lower center: "Here under lyeth a Woorthye Squyer that Richarde Payton knyght | An honest Gentleman, and thyrde sonne to Robert Payton knyght | In Greys Inne student of the lawe. Wheare he a Reader was, | He feared God and loved his woorde, in truth his lyfe did pass | In practysing of Justice Lore, was all his whole delyght | He never wronged anyone, to whome he myght do ryght | Whome he esteemed an honest freende whome he might stand in steede | He never left to do hym good, with worde with purse, and deede | for tenne yeares space he married was, unto a faythfull wyfe | By parent named Marye Hyde; they lyved devoyde of stryfe | The eath him bare twyce twentie yeares, and vertuouslye he lyved | A godlye lyfe he dyd embrace, and virtuouslye he dyed."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Townsend Rich
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Undetermined
- Accession Number:
- B1982.21.83
- Classification:
- Brass Rubbings
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | portrait
- Associated Places:
- Cambridgeshire
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Rubbed by Townsend Rich, 1909–1998, American, Richard Payton Esq. and His Wife Mary Hyde, The Parish Church of St. Andrew, Isleham, 1966
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