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Drawing Roman mosaic from Bignor, West Sussex

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.11

Artist/Designer/Maker

Douglas, James - Attributed to

Production date

Post 1811

Material

paper
pen
ink

Technique

Writing (Processes)
Handwriting

Dimensions

Height: 314mm
Width: 395mm

Associated place

Bignor
West Sussex
Sussex
England
United Kingdom
Europe

Inscriptions

Inscription content

J.D.

Inscription content

probably James Douglas, the author of the Nenia.
See Minutes. Vol. 33. p. 46
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.

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Samuel Lysons, 'Account of Further Discoveries of the Remains of a Roman Villa at Bignor in Sussex', Archaeologia 19 (1821): 176-7.

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Thomas Morgan, Romano-British Mosaic Pavements: A History of Their Discovery and a Record and Interpretation of Their Designs (London: Witing & Co., 1886), 203.

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William Page ... [et al.], eds., The Victoria History of the County of Sussex 9 vols. (London, 1905-1997), 3: 20-3.

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J M C Toynbee, Art in Roman Britain (London: Phaidon Press, 1962), no. 190, p. 200.

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J M C Toynbee, Art in Britain Under the Romans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964), pp. 260-2.

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Barry Cunliffe, The Regni (London: Duckworth, 1973), pp. 89-95.

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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.
    The letter describes the Roman villa at Bignor, West Sussex, including the finding of the mosaic surrounding the hexagonal pool (described here as a bath with seating), related finds, and 'decorated plaster from the apartments'.