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Drawings Roman altar from Tynemouth Castle

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.23

Artist/Designer/Maker

Brand, John, Rev - Attributed To

Production date

1783
1787

Material

Paper
Pencil

Technique

Rubbing
Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 495mm
Width: 232mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Roman Altar found at Tinmouth [sic] Castle in Northumberland 1783.
Archæol. Vol. VIII. p. 326.

References

Reference (free text)

John Brand, 'Explanation of the Inscriptions on a Roman Altar and Tablet Found at Tinmouth [sic] Castle in Northumberland, A.D.1783', Archaeologia 8 (1787): 326-8. Illustration (Engraving), fig. 1, pl. XXI, opp. p. 326.

Reference (free text)

Albert Way, Catalogue of Antiquities, Coins, Pictures, and Miscellaneous Curiosities, in the Possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1847 (London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1847), p. 7, no. 27.

Reference (free text)

John Hodgson, History of Northumberland 7 vols. (Newcastle: John Hodgson, 1820), pt. 2, vol. 3: 169.

Reference (free text)

William Camden, Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, from the Earliest Antiquity 2nd ed, 4 vols. (London: John Stockdale, 1806), 3: 514. Illustration (Engraving), fig. 14, pl. XXXV, opp. p. 509.