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Drawings Roman bronze figure from the River Thames

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.244

Artist/Designer/Maker

Corbould, Henry - Artist

Production date

1837
1838
1840

Material

Paper
Brush
Ink
Pen

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 240mm
Width: 288mm
Height (of Mount): 305mm
Width (of Mount): 378mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Bronze Figure of a Priest, or devotee of Cybele found in the Bed of the Thames 1837. Archæol. Vol. XXVIII. p. 46.

Inscription content

HCorbould May 1838

Inscription content

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References

Reference (free text)

Charles Roach Smith, 'On Some Roman Bronzes Discovered in the Bed of the Thames, in January 1837', Archaeologia 28 (1840): 38-46. Illustration (Engraving), pl. IV, opp. p. 46.

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. 89.

Reference (free text)

British Museum, Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain 2nd ed. (London: British Museum, 1958), p. 54. Illustration (Photograph), fig17, pl. XVII, opp. p. 56.