Drawings and photographs collected for Gowland's publications, other than his report on Stonehenge
Reference code
GOW/04/02
Title
Drawings and photographs collected for Gowland's publications, other than his report on Stonehenge
Date
c 1890-1910
Level of description
File
Extent and format
1 folder
Scope and content
1. Used to illustrate 'Remains of a Roman silver refinery at Silchester', Archaeologia 57 (1900).
Drawings on three cards, all used to illustrate 'Remains of a Roman silver refinery at Silchester', Archaeologia 57 (1900):
- unlabelled drawing, used for fig 1, p 117. Pencil note on back '1553'.
- unlabelled drawing, used for fig 2, p 118. Marked 'Reduce to 1/2 …'. Pencil notes on back: '1553', 'Roman silver refining furnace (restored).
- unlabelled drawing, used for fig 3, p 119. Marked 'Reduce to 1/2 …'. Pencil notes on back: '1553', 'Roman silver refining furnace (restored).
2. Used to illustrate 'The Early Metallurgy of Silver and Lead', Archaeologia 57 (1900), pp 359-422.
- Sheet, pp 9-10, cut from a journal, with photograph of a Bolivian smelting furnace, showing the furnace with a donkey at rear left and a worker at front right; pencil note in margin by Gowland 'Leave out donkey'. This photograph, with the donkey removed, was used to by Gowland for, fig 1, p 363, 'Lead-smelting Furnace. Central Bolivia.'
The original article is identifiable as R Peele, 'A Primitive Smelting Furnace', The School of Mines Quarterly 15 (1893).
- Photographic print of a drawing headed 'Melting Furnace', marked for reproduction: used (as modified) for fig 6, p 387, 'Japanese smelting furnace'.
Used again by Gowland (as modified) for 'Metals and Metal-working in Old Japan', Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society of London XIII (1915), fig 12, p 57.
- Small photographic print of a Japanese subject: used (enlarged) for fig 7, p 389, 'Smelting lead ores. Japan'.
- Drawing on squared paper, copied from a publication, with MS notes by Gowland.
- Simplified version of the same drawing, on tracing paper mounted on card, used for fig 11, p 395, 'Ancient Furnace at Arles-sur-Tech, France'.
Comparison of the printed text with Gowland's MS notes shows this to have been taken from CC de Florencourt, Uber die Bergwerke der Alten (1785).
- Photograph printed on paper, uncaptioned, showing a vase: used for fig 21, p 421 'Leaden Cup. Rome. British Museum'.
- Small envelope with black border, annotated by Gowland 'See Corpus Hubner', containing three rubbings from an inscription, unidentified. Used for the final unnumbered lead pig in plate LVIII, facing p 399, where the pig is labelled as from Orihuela, near Valencia, Spain.
3. Photographic print of a drawing of furnace: similar to, but not the same as, the item used for 'Japanese Metallurgy. Part 1, Gold, Silver and their Alloys', amplified version of a paper read before The Society of Chemical Industry, subsequently published separately (1896), fig 8, p14; and for 'Metals and Metal-working in Old Japan', Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society of London XIII (1915), fig 8, p 41.
4. Small envelope with black border, containing photographic print mounted on card, showing a Japanese structure, possibly a tomb.
Drawings on three cards, all used to illustrate 'Remains of a Roman silver refinery at Silchester', Archaeologia 57 (1900):
- unlabelled drawing, used for fig 1, p 117. Pencil note on back '1553'.
- unlabelled drawing, used for fig 2, p 118. Marked 'Reduce to 1/2 …'. Pencil notes on back: '1553', 'Roman silver refining furnace (restored).
- unlabelled drawing, used for fig 3, p 119. Marked 'Reduce to 1/2 …'. Pencil notes on back: '1553', 'Roman silver refining furnace (restored).
2. Used to illustrate 'The Early Metallurgy of Silver and Lead', Archaeologia 57 (1900), pp 359-422.
- Sheet, pp 9-10, cut from a journal, with photograph of a Bolivian smelting furnace, showing the furnace with a donkey at rear left and a worker at front right; pencil note in margin by Gowland 'Leave out donkey'. This photograph, with the donkey removed, was used to by Gowland for, fig 1, p 363, 'Lead-smelting Furnace. Central Bolivia.'
The original article is identifiable as R Peele, 'A Primitive Smelting Furnace', The School of Mines Quarterly 15 (1893).
- Photographic print of a drawing headed 'Melting Furnace', marked for reproduction: used (as modified) for fig 6, p 387, 'Japanese smelting furnace'.
Used again by Gowland (as modified) for 'Metals and Metal-working in Old Japan', Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society of London XIII (1915), fig 12, p 57.
- Small photographic print of a Japanese subject: used (enlarged) for fig 7, p 389, 'Smelting lead ores. Japan'.
- Drawing on squared paper, copied from a publication, with MS notes by Gowland.
- Simplified version of the same drawing, on tracing paper mounted on card, used for fig 11, p 395, 'Ancient Furnace at Arles-sur-Tech, France'.
Comparison of the printed text with Gowland's MS notes shows this to have been taken from CC de Florencourt, Uber die Bergwerke der Alten (1785).
- Photograph printed on paper, uncaptioned, showing a vase: used for fig 21, p 421 'Leaden Cup. Rome. British Museum'.
- Small envelope with black border, annotated by Gowland 'See Corpus Hubner', containing three rubbings from an inscription, unidentified. Used for the final unnumbered lead pig in plate LVIII, facing p 399, where the pig is labelled as from Orihuela, near Valencia, Spain.
3. Photographic print of a drawing of furnace: similar to, but not the same as, the item used for 'Japanese Metallurgy. Part 1, Gold, Silver and their Alloys', amplified version of a paper read before The Society of Chemical Industry, subsequently published separately (1896), fig 8, p14; and for 'Metals and Metal-working in Old Japan', Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society of London XIII (1915), fig 8, p 41.
4. Small envelope with black border, containing photographic print mounted on card, showing a Japanese structure, possibly a tomb.