Dr Megan Shaw
@meganshaw.bsky.social
Art Historian | Working on the Duchess of Buckingham and Cultural Patronage at the Stuart Court | 2022 Junior Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre | Instagram: @yorkhousearchive
Katherine Manners, daughter and heir of the 6th Earl, was also a proponent of memento mori, using skulls to support columns on the tomb that she commissioned in Westminster Abbey for her husband, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham in 1634, completed six years after his assassination.
October 31, 2023 at 4:36 PM
Katherine Manners, daughter and heir of the 6th Earl, was also a proponent of memento mori, using skulls to support columns on the tomb that she commissioned in Westminster Abbey for her husband, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham in 1634, completed six years after his assassination.
Happy to be here! For my first post (on Halloween) I want to introduce two 17th century tombs 🪦 The first was erected for the 6th Earl of Rutland in Bottesford. It offers the unusual proclamation that his sons, who are sculpted holding skulls, were killed by "wicked practise and sorcerye" [witches].
![Two sculpted figures of young boys [deceased] holding skulls. Located on the tomb of Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland, in the Bottesford church.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbfqyl2mitty4rck336spch3/bafkreicjoxyqu4j7ifhkjbe5rt5gu3picow64qnq5xhfjkf2wkjmpx235i@jpeg)
October 31, 2023 at 4:34 PM
Happy to be here! For my first post (on Halloween) I want to introduce two 17th century tombs 🪦 The first was erected for the 6th Earl of Rutland in Bottesford. It offers the unusual proclamation that his sons, who are sculpted holding skulls, were killed by "wicked practise and sorcerye" [witches].