Drawings Roman objects from the villa at Great Witcombe
Object number
LDSAL2020.15.222
Artist/Designer/Maker
Stothard, Charles A - Artist
Production date
1818
Material
paper
pen
ink
pen
ink
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height (of Mount): 497mm
Width (of Mount): 374mm
Height: 167mm
Width: 266mm
Height: 108mm
Width: 314mm
Height: 125mm
Width: 213mm
Width (of Mount): 374mm
Height: 167mm
Width: 266mm
Height: 108mm
Width: 314mm
Height: 125mm
Width: 213mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Various Articles of Iron and Bronze found in the remains of a Roman Villa at Witcombe in Gloucestershire
Inscription content
C. A.Stothard del.
References
Reference (free text)
Samuel Lysons, 'Account of the Remains of a Roman Villa Discovered in the Parish of Great Witcombe, in the County of Gloucester', Archaeologia 19 (1821): 178-83.
Reference (free text)
E M Clifford, 'The Roman Villa, Witcombe, Gloucestershire', Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 73 (1954): 5-69.
Illustrations (Engravings), fig. 13, p. 48; fig. 14, p. 49; fig. 19, p. 62.
Reference (free text)
Anna Eliza Bray, Memoires, Including Original Journals, Letters, Papers, and Antiquarian Tracts, of the Late Charles Alfred Stothard (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823), pp. 257-61.
Reference (free text)
Joseph Farington, The Diary of Joseph Farington (Kenneth Garlick, Angus Macintyre, and Kathryn Cave, eds.) 17 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978-1998), 15, p. 5186.
'Friday 10th [April 1818]
...
Lysons called, having returned from Gloucestershire yesterday. He shewed [sic] a plan of a Roman Villa discovered abt. 6 weeks [ago] in Gloucestershire on the estate of Sir William Hicks...Stothard, Junr, is now making drawings of it for Lysons.'
There are three drawings mounted on a larger sheet, enclosed in a ruled pencil border.
