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Drawings Roman bronze statue of Nero from Suffolk

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.239

Artist/Designer/Maker

Smirke, Richard - Artist

Production date

1795
1815

Material

Paper
Brush
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 395mm
Width: 261mm
Height (of Mount): 445mm
Width (of Mount): 312mm

Inscriptions

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An Antique Statue of Bronze found near Barking-hall, in Suffolk, in the possession of the Earl of Ashburnham.
Vetusta Mon. Vol. IV.

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R. Smirke delt

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B. Museum

References

Reference (free text)

Vetusta Monumenta 4 (1815), pl. XI.

Reference (free text)

British Musuem, A Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities (London: British Museum, 1922), p. 87. Illustration (Photograph), pl. I.

Reference (free text)

British Museum, Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain 2nd ed. (London: British Museum, 1958), p. 54. Illustration (Photograph), pl. XIV, opp. p. 53.

Reference (free text)

T W Potter, Roman Britain (London: British Museum Press, 1997), pp. 14-15. Illustration, fig. 7, p. 14.