John Cherry looked after medieval metalwork at the British Museum from 1964 to 2002. In 2016 he published Richard Rawlinson and his Seal Matrices: Collecting in the Early Eighteenth Century, and ‘Patronage and purpose: goldsmiths and the engraving of silver seal matrices in late Medieval England’ in Orfèverie gothique en Europe: production et réception, ed. E.A. König and M. Tomasi. Jessica Berenbeim is a Long-term Fellow in Cultural and Intellectual History at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She was a Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 2012 to 2016, and she is the author of Art of Documentation: Documents and Visual Culture in Medieval England (2015). Lloyd de Beer is a curator with responsibility for the late medieval collection at the British Museum. His research is primarily concerned with English art and architecture of the Middle Ages. He is currently working on the alabaster sculptures of medieval England.
[I]t achieves that rare objective - it will benefit both the
specialist sigillographer and attract those with a more general
interest in the material expression of power, particularly
medievalists.
*Archaeological Journal*
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