Drawings Roman mosaic from Bignor, West Sussex
Object number
LDSAL2020.15.10
Artist/Designer/Maker
King, Thomas (1775-1845) - Artist
King, Thomas (1775-1845) - Engraver
King, Thomas (1775-1845) - Printer/Publisher
King, Thomas (1775-1845) - Engraver
King, Thomas (1775-1845) - Printer/Publisher
Production date
1811
Material
Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink
Ink
Printer's Ink
Technique
Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)
Letterpress Printing
Writing (Processes)
Engraving (Printing Process)
Letterpress Printing
Writing (Processes)
Dimensions
Height (of Mount): 506mm
Width (of Mount): 308mm
Height: 77mm
Width: 73mm
Height: 71mm
Width: 74mm
Height: 285mm
Width: 235mm
Width (of Mount): 308mm
Height: 77mm
Width: 73mm
Height: 71mm
Width: 74mm
Height: 285mm
Width: 235mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Published Aug. 1811 & Engraved by T.King from a drawing taken by him on the spot - to be had of him East Street Chichester
A view of the ROMAN BATH & tesselated pavement, discovered July 1811 in a field at Bignor near Petworth (Sussex) 18 inches below the surface of the earth
A view of the ROMAN BATH & tesselated pavement, discovered July 1811 in a field at Bignor near Petworth (Sussex) 18 inches below the surface of the earth
Inscription content
See Society's Minutes
Vol. 33. p. 45 &/c
CKW
Vol. 33. p. 45 &/c
CKW
References
Reference (free text)
Samuel Lysons, Reliquiæ Britannico-Romanæ, Containing Figures of Roman Antiquities Discovered in Various Parts of England 3 vols. (London: Cadell and Davies, 1813-17), 3: 1-6.
Illustrations, pls. V, VII-IX.
Reference (free text)
Samuel Lysons, 'Account of the Remains of a Roman Villa, Discovered at Bignor, in Sussex, in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, and 1815', Archaeologia 18 (1817): 203-21.
Reference (free text)
Samuel Lysons, 'Account of Further Discoveries of the Remains of a Roman Villa at Bignor in Sussex', Archaeologia 19 (1821): 176-7.
Reference (free text)
Thomas Morgan, Romano-British Mosaic Pavements: A History of Their Discovery and a Record and Interpretation of Their Designs (London: Witing & Co., 1886), 203.
Reference (free text)
William Page ... [et al.], eds., The Victoria History of the County of Sussex 9 vols. (London, 1905-1997), 3: 20-3.
Illustration, pl. opp. p. 22.
Reference (free text)
J M C Toynbee, Art in Roman Britain (London: Phaidon Press, 1962), no. 190, p. 200.
Illustration, pl. 224.
Reference (free text)
J M C Toynbee, Art in Britain Under the Romans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964), pp. 260-2.
Reference (free text)
Barry Cunliffe, The Regni (London: Duckworth, 1973), pp. 89-95.
Illustration, fig. 33, p. 93.
Reference (free text)
David E Johnston, 'The Central-Southern Group of Romano-British Mosaics', in Julian Munby and Martin Henig, eds., Roman Life and Art in Britain: A Celebration in Honour of the Eightieth Birthday of Jocelyn Toynbee 2 vols. (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1977), 1: 115, 117.
Reference (free text)
Neil Andrew Cookson, Romano-British Mosaics: A Reassessment and Critique of Some Notable Stylistic Affinities (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1984), pl. 38.
Illustration, pl. 38.
A sheet of grey paper, on which are pasted a cut-down impression of an engraving by Thomas King of the Bignor pavement, and a cutting from the M[orning?] Post dated August 1811, and another cutting dated July 1811. The cuttings describe the circumstances of the find.